Google AI technology to help WWF track wildlife recovery across Australia

Stan Gorton
Updated March 23 2021 - 11:31pm, first published December 18 2020 - 9:00am
SENSOR CAMERA: Darren Grover from WWF-Australia and Paul Jennings from Kangaroo Island Landscape Board install sensor cameras in Flinders Chase National Park on the western end of Kangaroo Island. The cameras are designed to track the recovery of animals impacted by Australias bushfires as part of a project called An Eye on Recovery. Photo: WWF / Slavica Miskovich
SENSOR CAMERA: Darren Grover from WWF-Australia and Paul Jennings from Kangaroo Island Landscape Board install sensor cameras in Flinders Chase National Park on the western end of Kangaroo Island. The cameras are designed to track the recovery of animals impacted by Australias bushfires as part of a project called An Eye on Recovery. Photo: WWF / Slavica Miskovich

Artificial intelligence and an army of new sensor cameras will be used to track the recovery of animals impacted by bushfires in one of the most extensive post-fire surveillance programs ever undertaken in Australia.

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Stan Gorton

Stan Gorton

Journalist

Walkley-nominated journalist based at The Islander on Kangaroo Island with an interest in the local community and the environment.

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