Following the promising 2019 results obtained during our Mediterranean monk seal project, the Octopus Foundation presented a scientific poster at the World marine mammal conference in Barcelona, in December of 2019. This was a great opportunity to meet with the scientists and professional that have been working towards the study and conservation of monk seals,…
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After two years of prototype improvement and conclusive field testing, the Octopus Foundation team is proud to present the first version of the step-by-step manual to build your very own open source, autonomous and connected monitoring system. This kit was initially developed to study the elusive and rare Mediterranean Monk Seal. The objective is to…
As suspected, 2020 was going to be a year like none other. We were nevertheless surprised by the intensity of our Greek field mission, where we planned to perfect our open source systems to monitor the Mediterranean monk seal. The adventure began with the Covid-19 crisis, which de facto postponed the field mission initially scheduled…
We recently made the decision to stop feeding our social media accounts. This is primarily because of an obvious lack of transparency. When posting on Facebook, for example, we are given statistics that cannot be readily verified. We must believe a corporation that gradually and deliberately decreased our reach over the years. How do…
After three years of work on our autonomous and open source prototypes to monitor the Mediterranean monk seal, the Octopus Foundation team has the immense privilege of presenting the first results of this extraordinary project. We will refrain from coming to any biological conclusions about the behavior of this endangered marine mammal, since we are…
For the 8 p.m. news broadcast of French TV channel TF1 of August 25, 2020, the journalists published a story on the Mediterranean monk seal and the work of the Octopus Foundation in the Ionian Islands. The story can be replayed here: