Hacker News with Generative AI: Wildlife Conservation

SpeciesNet: AI models to classify species from motion-triggered widlife cameras (github.com/google)
Effective wildlife monitoring relies heavily on motion-triggered wildlife cameras, or “camera traps”, which generate vast quantities of image data. Manual processing of these images is a significant bottleneck. AI can accelerate that processing, helping conservation practitioners spend more time on conservation, and less time reviewing images.

Artificial Intelligence, Wildlife Conservation, Computer Vision, Conservation Technology

7 points by rguiscard 30 days ago | 1 comments

Reintroductions of beavers into the wild in several parts of England (wildlifetrusts.org)
The Wildlife Trusts congratulate the UK Government’s decision to open the door for licenced reintroductions of beavers into the wild and its acknowledgment of the free-living populations in several parts of England.

Wildlife Conservation, Beavers, UK Government, England

193 points by thinkingemote 31 days ago | 149 comments

WWF helping facilitate trade in polar bear fur, investigation reveals (theguardian.com)
The wildlife charity WWF has been working to support the trade in polar bear fur at the same time as using images of the bears to raise money, it can be revealed.

Wildlife Conservation, Polar Bears, Trade, Investigation, Non-Profit Organizations

8 points by c420 47 days ago | 0 comments

Fears of 'rogue rewilding' in Scottish Highlands after further lynx sightings (theguardian.com)
For a brief moment this week, lynx have been roaming the Scottish Highlands once again. But this was not the way conservationists had hoped to end their 1,000-year absence.

Wildlife Conservation, Scotland, Lynx, Ecology, Environmentalism

4 points by rntn 81 days ago | 0 comments

Red squirrels 'to vanish from England' unless vaccine against squirrelpox funded (theguardian.com)
Red squirrels will soon disappear from England unless the government funds a vaccine against squirrelpox, one of the biggest groups set up to protect the species has warned.

Wildlife Conservation, England, Vaccines, Endangered Species

7 points by pseudolus 137 days ago | 0 comments

'That's a bloodbath': How a federal program kills wildlife for private interests (npr.org)
A federal program kills hundreds of thousands of wild animals a year. Documents obtained by NPR show that many of those animals were killed in places where no damage to livestock was reported.

Wildlife Conservation, Government Programs, Environmental Issues, Animal Welfare

21 points by thunderbong 174 days ago | 5 comments

For ranchers in Costa Rica, jaguars and pumas become unexpected allies (mongabay.com)
Since 2013, a joint project between Costa Rican conservation authorities and wildcat NGO Panthera has worked to tackle the problem of jaguars and pumas preying on ranchers’ livestock.

Wildlife Conservation, Costa Rica, Human-Wildlife Conflict

55 points by PaulHoule 176 days ago | 18 comments

US man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting (theguardian.com)
An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in central Asia and the US to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.

Wildlife Conservation, Animal Welfare, Crime, Law Enforcement, Genetics

58 points by wwarner 183 days ago | 34 comments

You could push it to extinction: social media is putting rarest wildlife at risk (theguardian.com)
From breeding spots overrun by visitors to photographers disturbing endangered species, experts say the rarer the find is, the bigger the problem

Wildlife Conservation, Social Media, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact

5 points by beardyw 189 days ago | 0 comments

To save spotted owls, US officials will kill hundreds of thousands of other owls (apnews.com)

Wildlife Conservation, Owls, Environmental Policy

19 points by rntn 272 days ago | 17 comments

Wild horses reintroduced to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries (theguardian.com)