3Rs: Principles in Wildlife Research

The 3Rs Wildlife Research Case Studies series is a growing collection of short video case studies, each featuring a wildlife researcher presenting a real field research project that applies non-invasive or non-lethal methods in line with the 3Rs principles of Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement.

Case studies currently cover fecal DNA sampling for felid population monitoring in India, environmental DNA for amphibian detection in Italy, drone surveys for beaver population monitoring in Bulgaria, bioacoustics for gibbon species mapping in Borneo, eDNA for rare fish detection in the Philippines, artificial sentinel prey for identifying biocontrol agents in Italy, camera traps for mammal population trends in Indonesia, and acoustic monitoring of bat communities in the Western Alps.

Each video demonstrates how a specific non-invasive method was applied in a real research context, what data it produced, and what lessons were learned.