Train collisions are the second-highest cause of elephant deaths in India. A new AI-powered solution is helping them safely cross the tracks.
With coral reefs increasingly under threat from the effects of climate change, it is more important than ever to monitor and map these unique underwater ecosystems. In the Dominican Republic, an array of airborne sensor technologies are helping local NGOs do just that.
Technological solutions are increasingly being used in the fight against poaching. The Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya has founded a brand new lab to build the next generation of digital conservation technology.
Last month, Rwanda’s Development Board hosted an event called Kwita Izina, a traditional Rwandese naming ceremony for newborns. But there was something very un-traditional about the babies being celebrated. The country was honouring its gorilla population rather than its human one, the result of a success story that has seen numbers of the endangered species rising year on year.
How do researchers actually know how many tigers there are left? What about polar bears? Or the famously elusive snow leopard? Traditional monitoring techniques used by wildlife experts can sometimes end up doing the animals more harm than good.
Veteran conservationist, Biswajit Mohanty, has employed a number of tools in his endeavours to conserve wildlife. In this talk on Sunday, he'll outline perhaps one of the most unlikely of those tools (yet one that has yielded exceptional results): the Right to Information Act (RTI)!
Although they become smaller and lighter and seem to reduce their use of material and resources, our laptops and desktop PCs hide an immense amount of technology inside ther stylish shells. This technology runs on a lot of energy, especially when using several programs at one moment.
RESET spoke with Praveen Pardeshi, Principal Secretary of the Revenue and Forests Department in Maharashtra about the importance of biodiversity, how wildlife conservation is being tackled and what measures the government is taking to preserve that which is integral to Indian identity.
Conserving India’s wildlife is an immense task and one which Conservation India (CI) is fully committed to tackling.
