Tag: artificial intelligence

May 10, 2022

TWS2021: AI image recognition could be the future of wildlife management

Image recognition technology could help with wildlife management, but the products still need some fine tuning. “We saw lots of possible implications if this technology would work,” said TWS member...

March 10, 2022

Tourist photos help wildlife conservation

If you’re going on a vacation, you may be able to help researchers collect important information about endangered species. Researchers have trained computers to search social media and find photos...

February 24, 2022

Artificial Intelligence helps predict bird declines worldwide

For many bird species, scientists don’t have much information to figure out whether their populations are rising, falling or staying about the same. To get a better sense, researchers turned...

September 17, 2021

Watch: AI predicts long-term sea ice changes

Traditional models predict Arctic sea ice levels well over a few weeks, but long-range forecasting is a challenge. But researchers say a new tool using artificial intelligence may be far...

August 10, 2021

Under climate change, more of Yellowstone to burn

The wildfires burning across the western United States may offer a glimpse of the future of forests, according to recent research. Rupert Seidl, Professor of Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management...

November 17, 2020

Artificial Intelligence helps Canadian researchers study bears

Biologists at the University of Victoria have teamed up with software experts to use facial recognition technology to identify individual grizzlies (Ursus arctos horribilis), picking up differences the human eye...

September 9, 2020

Artificial intelligence can identify individual birds

Studying sociable weaver birds in South Africa, André Ferreira found himself bogged down by how tedious and time consuming it was. The species gathers in colonies, where the birds work...

September 3, 2020

The September/October issue of The Wildlife Professional

The Wildlife Professional is an exclusive benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published six times annually, the magazine presents timely research news and analysis of trends in the wildlife profession....

December 20, 2019

Artificial intelligence helps researchers tune into island soundscapes

Algorithms can help researchers tune into massive soundscapes involving a huge number of species and background noise to determine the level of seabird recovery on remote islands in Alaska. “We...

September 17, 2019

Artificial intelligence can help analyze bird migrations

While researchers have been able to track birds migrating at night using National Weather Service radar, sometimes it’s just too much data to go through in order to answer bigger...