From Seattle, Washington, to Cape Town, South Africa - and everywhere around and between - AI is helping conserve the wild plants and animals that make up the intricate web of life on Earth.
It's critical work that sustains ecosystems and supports biodiversity at a time when the United Nations estimates over 1 million species are threatened with extinction.
World Wildlife Day, a UN initiative, is celebrated every March 3 to recognize the unique contributions wild animals and plants have on people and the planet - and vice versa.
Our own survival depends on wildlife, the above video on this year's celebration says, just as much as their survival depends on us.
Learn more about some of the leading nonprofits and startups using NVIDIA AI and accelerated computing to protect wildlife and natural habitats, today and every day:
Ai2's EarthRanger Offers World's Largest Elephant Database Seattle-based nonprofit AI research institute Ai2 offers EarthRanger, a software platform that helps protected-area managers, ecologists and wildlife biologists make more informed operational decisions for wildlife conservation in real time, whether preventing poaching, spotting ill or injured animals, or studying animal behavior.
Among Ai2's efforts with EarthRanger is the planned development of a machine learning model - trained using NVIDIA Hopper GPUs in the cloud - that predicts the movement of elephants in areas close to human-wildlife boundaries where elephants could raid crops and potentially prompt humans to retaliate.
With access to the world's largest repository of elephant movement data, made possible by EarthRanger users who've shared their data, the AI model could help predict elephant behaviors, then alert area managers to safely guide the elephants away from risky situations that could arise for them or for people in the vicinity. Area managers or rangers typically use helicopters, other vehicles and chili bombs to safely reroute elephants.
An elephant named Hugo wears a monitoring device that helps keep him safe. Image courtesy of the Mara Elephant Project. Beyond elephants, EarthRanger collects, integrates and displays data on a slew of wildlife - aggregated from over 100 data sources, including camera traps, acoustic sensors, satellites, radios and more. Then, the platform combines the data with field reports to provide a unified view of collared wildlife, rangers, enforcement assets and infrastructure within a protected area.
EarthRanger platform interface. Name a country, species or an environmental cause and we're probably supporting a field organization's conservation efforts there, said Jes Lefcourt, director of EarthRanger at Ai2.
It's deployed by governments and conservation organizations in 76 countries and 650 protected areas, including nearly every national park in Africa, about a dozen state fishing and wildlife departments in the U.S., as well as many other users across Latin America and Asia.
Four of these partners - Rouxcel Technology, OroraTech, Wildlife Protection Services and Conservation X Labs - are highlighted below.
Rouxcel Technology Saves Rhinos With AI South African startup Rouxcel Technology's AI-based RhinoWatches, tapping into EarthRanger, learn endangered black and white rhinos' behaviors, then alert authorities in real time of any detected abnormalities. These abnormalities can include straying from typical habitats, territorial fighting with other animals and other potentially life-threatening situations.
It's critical work, as there are just about 28,000 rhinos left in the world, from 500,000 at the beginning of the 20th century.
A white rhino sports a Rouxcel RhinoWatch. Image courtesy of Hannah Rippon. Rouxcel, based in Cape Town, has deployed over 1,200 RhinoWatches - trained and optimized using NVIDIA accelerated computing - across more than 40 South African reserves. The startup, which uses the Ai2 EarthRanger platform, protects more than 1.2 million acres of rhino habitats, and has recently expanded to help conservation efforts in Kenya and Namibia.
Looking forward, Rouxcel is developing AI models to help prevent poaching and human-wildlife conflict for more species, including pangolins, a critically endangered species.
OroraTech Monitors Wildfires and Poaching With NVIDIA CUDA, Jetson OroraTech - a member of the NVIDIA Inception program for cutting-edge startups - uses the EarthRanger platform to protect wildlife in a different way, offering a wildfire detection and monitoring service that fuses satellite imagery and AI to safeguard the environment and prevent poaching.
Combining data from satellites, ground-based cameras, aerial observations and local weather information, OroraTech detects threats to natural habitats and alerts users in real time. The company's technologies monitor more than 30 million hectares of land that directly impact wildlife in Africa and Australia. That's nearly the size of the Great Barrier Reef.
OroraTech detects an early bushfire near Expedition National Park in Australia. OroraTech flies an NVIDIA Jetson module for edge AI and data processing onboard all of its satellite payloads - the instruments, equipment and systems on a satellite designed for performing specific tasks. Through GPU-accelerated image processing, OroraTech achieves exceptional latency, delivering fire notifications to users on the ground as fast as five minutes after image acquisition.
The AI-based fire-detection pipeline uses the NVIDIA cuDNN library of deep neural network primitives and the NVIDIA TensorRT software development kit for thermal anomaly detection and cloud masking in space, leading to high-precision fire detections.
Wildlife Protection Solutions Help Preserve Endangered Species International nonprofit Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS) supports more than 250
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From Seattle, Washington, to Cape Town, South Africa - and everywhere around and between - AI is helping conserve the wild plants and animals that make up the intricate web of life on Earth.
