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High-flying concessions: Clandestine airstrips, coca crops invade Ucayali’s forests

Mongabay Latam 16 Dec 2024
Rainforest in Gabon surrounded by Ivindo River.

Satellites and lidar get AI boost to count forest carbon stock worldwide

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Dec 2024

Narco airstrips beset Indigenous communities in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay Latam 9 Dec 2024

15 illegal narco-trafficking airstrips found near Peru Indigenous communities

Mongabay Latam 4 Dec 2024

The illegal runways exposing the Kakataibo people to drug violence in Peru

Mongabay Latam 29 Nov 2024
A rhino.

Tracking footprints to monitor wildlife: Interview with WildTrack’s Zoe Jewell

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Nov 2024
Farmer Florence Ochieng harvests green maize in Trans-Nzoia, Kenya.

Kenyan farmers turn to WhatsApp & AI tools to combat crop diseases

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 27 Jun 2024
Rainforest in the Colombian Amazon

AI model maps global tree canopy heights in hi-res, with carbon counting in mind

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Apr 2024

Bioacoustics and AI help scientists listen in on elusive Australian cockatoos

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Apr 2024
Informal logging road

Unseen and unregulated: ‘Ghost’ roads carve up Asia-Pacific tropical forests

Carolyn Cowan 11 Apr 2024
Pneumonia in bighorn sheep induces coughing which can be detected acoustically. Image by Noah Israel/Wikimedia Commons.

The potential for tracking wildlife health & disease via bioacoustics is great (commentary)

Jesse Turner 10 Apr 2024
Producing an AI chip requires 10-15 times more energy than making a standard chip.

Critics fear catastrophic energy crisis as AI is outsourced to Latin America

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 21 Mar 2024
Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image courtesy of WWF Sweden.

Ancient giant river dolphin species found in the Peruvian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2024
Illegal road leading to an oil palm plantation in Indonesia.

To detect illegal roads in remote areas, AI comes into play

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Mar 2024
A Boodie (Bettongia lesueur) and a Bilby (Macrotis lagotis), two Australian marsupials.

New funding boosts AI-enabled wildlife identification project in Australia

Abhishyant Kidangoor 23 Feb 2024
A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda)

On Kaho’olawe, new technology could restore a sacred Hawaiian island

Claudia Geib 19 Feb 2024
A manatee

Find the manatee: New AI model spots sea cows from images

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Feb 2024
A camera trap image of a mountain lion feeding on a mule.

‘We’re doing so much with so little’: Interview with WildLabs’ Talia Speaker

Abhishyant Kidangoor 6 Feb 2024
Plastic waste in water.

New AI model helps detect and identify microplastics in wastewater

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Jan 2024
A school of snappers under a pier

AI and satellite data map true scale of untracked fishing and ocean industry

Elizabeth Fitt 10 Jan 2024
Two koala bears.

Conservation X Labs announces merger with AI nonprofit Wild Me

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Jan 2024
A male Allen's hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin).

New AI model gives bird’s-eye view of avian distribution at vast scale

Abhishyant Kidangoor 8 Nov 2023
Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Image by Dr. Jonathan Moore.

To keep track of salmon migrations in real time, First Nations turn to AI

Spoorthy Raman 6 Nov 2023
Andean cock of the rock bird in Manu. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Sound recordings and AI tell us if forests are recovering, new study from Ecuador shows

Liz Kimbrough 23 Oct 2023
Chittal, as spotted deer are known in Nepali

Nepal’s tiger conservation gets tech boost with AI-powered deer tracking

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Oct 2023
A chestnut-mandibled toucan in the rain.

Climate change detectable in daily rainfall patterns, deep-learning model finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 27 Sep 2023
Eastern bluebirds

With fewer birds seen on farms, scientists try listening for them

Abhishyant Kidangoor 8 Sep 2023
A red fox.

In the chain of species extinctions, AI can predict the next link to break

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Aug 2023
Greville's bolete, which has a mycorrhizal relationship with larch trees.

Machine learning helps researchers identify underground fungal networks

Abhishyant Kidangoor 4 Aug 2023

AI unlocks secrets of Amazon river dolphins’ behavior, no tagging required

Liz Kimbrough 1 Aug 2023
Landsat views the forests from high above the Earth.

New Tree Tech: Real-time, long-term, high-tech reforestation monitoring

Claire Asher 13 Jul 2023
Drone carrying self-burying seed carriers .

New Tree Tech: Cutting-edge drones give reforestation a helping hand

Claire Asher 12 Jul 2023

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