The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is partnering with IBM to use artificial intelligence (AI) and camera traps to track and monitor the declining population of African forest elephants in the Congo Basin.
In the Congo Basin, the second-largest rainforest in the world, the African forest elephant population has been in drastic decline for decades. This decline is the result of habitat loss caused by deforestation and climate change, along with rampant poaching.
While we know these changes will occur as the elephant population shrinks, actually seeing it happen presents challenges. The World Wide Fund for Nature-Germany aims to track and identify individual elephants to count them. With help from IBM, the WWF will be able to use a system of camera traps connected to software that enables automatic tracking as opposed to manual tracking.That is where computer vision can serve as a fresh set of eyes.
“Counting African forest elephants is both difficult and costly,” Dr. Thomas Breuer, WWF’s African Forest Elephant coordinator, says. “The logistics are complex and the resulting population numbers are not precise. Being able to identify individual elephants from camera trap images with the help of AI has the potential to be a game-changer.
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