AI-powered camera traps are protecting Gabon wildlife from poachers
AI-powered camera traps give Gabon wildlife rangers a new tool in the fight against poaching and biodiversity loss.
With around 24 million hectares of forest, Gabon is a biodiversity hotspot, including hosting one of the largest populations of the critically endangered African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). Now, researchers from the University of Stirling, UK, are using a new kind of camera trap to help monitor and protect this and other species.
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