Tuesday 2 August 2022 05:36 PM Rangers in India use artificial intelligence to protect 'vulnerable' tigers ... trends now
Conservation rangers in India are using the power of artificial intelligence to protect the country's vulnerable tigers from poachers and other perils.
Most of the nation's tigers - believed to number about 2,967 in total - live in one of 51 tiger reserves that cover a large area stretching 45,900 miles.
Quantifying the beautiful creatures isn't always easy and the same can be said for protecting them, with deaths resulting from poaching, seizures, accidents or conflicts with humans totaling about 300 over the last four years.
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Most of the India's tigers - believed to number about 2,967 in total - live in one of 51 tiger reserves that cover a large area stretching 45,900 miles. AI is helping conservation rangers to track the animals' movements
AVI Foundation has developed an AI that can use data collected by cameras and rangers, in combination with satellite data and information from the local population. Pictured above is a graphic showing the causes of tiger mortality from 2012 to 2020
India's National Tiger Conservation Authority has deployed camera traps in 26,838 locations to take more than 34 million images of wildlife. Researchers also covered several hundred thousand miles on foot to seek out signs of tigers or their prey.
A new artificial intelligence system being developed will give rangers the best routes to patrol in the extremely vast areas under their watch - by analyzing data about the tiger population, how it moves and the local topography, reports BBC News.
'Artificial intelligence will help rangers in detecting wildlife crimes,' Mohmad Sajid Sultan, assistant inspector general at the NTCA, told the British news outlet.
AVI Foundation has developed an AI that can use data collected by cameras and rangers, in combination with satellite data and information from the local population.
India's National Tiger Conservation Authority has deployed camera traps in 26,838 locations to take more than 34 million images of wildlife. Artificial intelligence can sift through the data much faster than any one human
India has made it a priority to grow its wild tiger population by 35 percent to as many as 4,000 in the next decade. Pictured above is an image from a resort at Pench National Park
Jerryl Banait, chairman of AVI Foundation, told BBC News that he hopes that forest departments across India will use this more sophisticated hybrid technology to better
