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Using AI to help save wildlife after bushfires

Sian Powell

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One of Australia’s largest-ever remote sensor camera projects, the Eyes on Recovery program led by the World Wildlife Fund, is using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse millions of wildlife photos from regions devastated by recent catastrophic bushfires.

These images will inform the future protection of threatened species – including the timing and management of hazard reduction burns. The project has placed WWF as a finalist in the Government, Education and Not-for-Profit section of the AFR BOSS Most Innovative awards.

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