Island Conservation Harnesses Machine Learning Solutions From Lenovo And NVIDIA To Restore Island Ecosystems
Lenovo News, Thursday, February 29th, 2024
Optimizing and accelerating image processing with AI helps conservation experts safeguard seabird nesting sites on Robinson Crusoe Island.
Around the world, biodiversity is under threat. We are now in what many scientists call the sixth mass extinction-and over the last century, hundreds of species of plants and animals have been lost forever.
Island ecosystems can be particularly vulnerable to human activity. On Robinson Crusoe Island in the South Pacific Ocean, native seabirds such as the pink-footed shearwater are easy prey for an invasive species: the South American coati. Introduced to the island by humans almost a century ago, coatis are housecat-sized mammals in the same family as racoons, which hunt for shearwaters in their nesting sites throughout the island.