AI & Wildlife Preservation

Renee Dubé [Last Updated: January 08, 2021]

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If there’s one thing most of us can agree on, it’s that wildlife preservation is important. The animals on this planet have been suffering a lot since we humans came on the scene. Luckily, there are amazing people out there trying to right the wrongs. Using Artificial Intelligence, researchers are able to continue this quest all the more and we’re looking into just how that’s being done.

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Wildlife Research

Giraffe populations are rapidly declining but AI is here to help

Researcher Jenna Stacy-Dawes and her team at San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research are being assisted in their work in giraffe conservation with the AI software program, Wildbook.

Wildbook, “automatically identifies individual animals by their unique coat patterns or other hallmark features, such as fluke or ear outlines…Stacy-Dawes and her colleagues are now able to blitz a giraffe population with photos over two days, upload the images and location data to their GiraffeSpotter database, and presto: a robust population assessment emerges. So far they’ve used Wildbook to assess giraffe numbers across three wildlife conservancies in northern Kenya.”