BBC 英语学习 新闻词汇 禁闭中的野生动物

There's plenty of

video evidence on social media that wildlife might benefit from lockdown, and while it's been for tragic, costly reasons, we pushed the pause button on human activity all over the world, on an increasingly crowded planet, wildlife scientists think that this will have some

profound effects. The only way to measure that, though, is with lots of biologgers.

A biologger is a small electronic device that can records, store and in some cases, automatically relay information, so that information could be positional information.

We can find out through satellite tracking, where an animal goes and what it's up to.

This animation shows just how much information those tiny trackers can gather.

It shows more than 15 hundred birds, movements and migrations logged over a decade.

Studying human absence is more tricky, though.

One famous study in the Chanoble Explosion Zone that I visited with scientists last year has revealed how nature took over a landscape that was abandoned after the nuclear disaster.

Now, though, in dozens of ongoing studies, wildlife researchers have their trackers on species, from African elephants to migrating cookies, and some of that data has been automatically uploaded throughout lockdown.

And so this really is an unprecedented opportunity to investigate this, this relationship between humans and and wildlife.

And we hope that the insights this this project will generate will help us to then inform future planning.

And there there are some very specific recommendations that could come out of this.

This pause has been at huge human and economical cost, which is why scientists say it's important to maximize what we can learn from lockdown about how to share the space we have with many other species.

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