AI Listens to the Wild: New Tech Helps Track Endangered Monkeys and Protect Biodiversity

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AI Listens to the Wild: New Tech Helps Track Endangered Monkeys and Protect Biodiversity
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Biologist Jenna Lawson used 350 audio monitors and AI to track endangered Geoffrey's spider monkeys in Costa Rica's rainforest. The study, one of the largest acoustic wildlife studies, revealed troubling findings about the health of the wildlife refuge. This AI-assisted wildlife surveillance is becoming increasingly important as many species face extinction. The technology can analyze vast amounts of data to uncover sound patterns, aiding in biodiversity conservation. Microsoft is developing new hardware and computing systems to further this research in remote and biodiverse areas.

PUERTO JIMÉNEZ, Costa Rica—The endangered Geoffrey’s spider monkeys that dangle high in the rainforest canopy are elusive and hard for scientists to track.

One of the world’s largest acoustic wildlife studies when Lawson began the project in 2021, it revealed troubling findings about the health of a treasured wildlife refuge. “Those remote places are also the most important places on the Earth from a biodiversity perspective,” said Microsoft’s chief data scientist, Juan Lavista Ferres, in an interview last week by video call from Colombia, where a research team was preparing to test the new approach.

Another project closer to Microsoft headquarters will monitor forests in Washington state’s Cascade Mountains. She persuaded landowners to let her place recording devices on their properties outside Corcovado National Park, a jewel of Costa Rica’s decades-long efforts to preserve biodiversity by encouraging wildlife tourism.

The Royal Society of London in March 2023 published Lawson’s findings of what the audio monitors revealed: the spider monkeys weren’t going anywhere near paved roads or the plantations harvesting palm oil and teak wood that bisect the region’s protected national parks.

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