Seeing the unseen: thermal drone surveys enhance detection and provide first density indices for threatened tree kangaroos in Papua New Guinea’s Torricelli Mountain Range

Seeing the unseen: thermal drone surveys enhance detection and provide first density indices for threatened tree kangaroos in Papua New Guinea’s Torricelli Mountain Range

Monitoring rare and threatened arboreal mammals in tropical montane forests is constrained by low detectability using conventional ground-based methods, hindering robust assessment of population trends and conservation outcomes. We evaluated whether thermal drone surveys could overcome detecti...