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Zoometrics suite

The other tools in the Zoometrics suite seen from urban wildlife: what each one does and how it complements Wild Metrics.

Wild Metrics follows the wildlife that lives alongside the city, starting with the wild boar, and it is not the only tool a local government needs for the space that people and animals share. It is part of the Zoometrics suite, which covers other municipal areas: cat colonies, the census of companion animals, citizen participation around street animals, and parks and gardens. Each one is described here from where Wild Metrics stands: what it offers people who work with urban wildlife, where its work is similar and where it is best not to confuse them.

  • Meow Metrics

    Meow Metrics manages a town’s cat colonies with the TNR method set out in Spanish Law 7/2023: where they are, how many animals there are, which interventions are carried out and by whom, with separate access for municipal technical staff, associations and volunteers. Seen from urban wildlife, its most useful trait is the way it reads the territory: each colony is drawn with its area of influence, and the local government can overlay its own layers, such as protected spaces, wetlands or bird zones, to see how far each colony lies from each delicate area and deal with the closest ones first.

    How it works with Wild Metrics

    Both tools work with maps, sensitive areas and layers loaded in open formats, so the municipal team applies a similar approach in both areas. Meow Metrics does not record wildlife and Wild Metrics does not manage colonies: each looks after its own field, and whoever coordinates both can compare, using their own judgement, which neighbourhoods and sensitive areas appear in each one.

  • Census Metrics

    Census Metrics keeps the municipal census of companion animals up to date, mainly dogs and cats: owners register their animal from a phone using its microchip, the veterinary clinic completes the health record and the local government has a georeferenced census, with neighbourhood-level maps and no exact home addresses. For people who follow urban wildlife, its contribution lies on the border between domestic and wild: knowing which animals have an owner, identification and vaccination helps to understand the rest, and its area-based health alerts fit the One Health approach, which looks at the health of people, animals and the environment together.

    How it works with Wild Metrics

    A resident’s report about an animal in the street may be a wild boar or a lost dog or cat, and whoever handles it needs to know which case it is. Wild Metrics organises encounters with wildlife, while Census Metrics handles losses, finds and the census of companion animals: each report goes to its own circuit, even though both may sit with the same local government.

  • Ark Metrics

    Ark Metrics brings together in one system the people and organisations who help animals in the town: those who ask for a capture and those who know how to do it, those who need a foster home and those who offer one, shelters, partner shops and clinics, and people who adopt or donate. Each animal up for adoption has a public page that can be shared and found in search engines, and each collaborator can have a donations page. Seen from urban wildlife, it shows how resident involvement is organised around street animals: a clear public channel to report and a path followed through to the end.

    How it works with Wild Metrics

    Both rely on residents who report from a phone, but each one deals with different animals. Ark Metrics covers captures, fostering and adoptions of companion animals and colony cats; in Wild Metrics, following wildlife ends in an alert or an action by the wildlife service, not in an adoption. A town can keep two reporting channels and explain to residents which one to use.

  • Silva Metrics

    Silva Metrics is the living inventory of a town’s parks and gardens: green areas, trees and plants, benches, play equipment, fountains and the irrigation network, each element with its own record, condition and history of work. It has a technical side for the parks and gardens staff and a public side reached with a QR code, both drawing on the same data. For people who follow encounters with wild animals, it is the plan of the place where many of them happen: it describes what is in each park or green area, context that Wild Metrics, for its part, can also mark as a sensitive area.

    How it works with Wild Metrics

    Silva Metrics and Wild Metrics work in tandem: when a piece of information matters to both, it is shared instead of being recorded twice, such as a nest located in a tree that is due to be pruned or pollinating insects seen in a planting. Silva Metrics describes what a green space contains and what work lies ahead; Wild Metrics adds what is seen moving through it.

The company and the full suite

Zoometrics

Zoometrics is the company behind the suite: a set of tools that help towns manage, with geolocated data, how people, animals and plants live together, under the One Health approach, which sees the health of people, animals and the environment as a whole. Wild Metrics fills the urban wildlife slot in it, alongside cat colonies, companion animals, citizen participation and parks and gardens. Its website introduces the team, the science it rests on and how each tool fits into the whole.

How it works with Wild Metrics

Wild Metrics is the part of the suite that follows the wildlife living alongside the city. The Zoometrics website shows the whole picture: what each tool does, how the areas are divided and what scientific basis supports the shared approach.