Wildlife monitoring with drones must balance competing demands: approaching close enough to capture behaviorally-relevant video while avoiding stress responses that compromise animal welfare and data ...

Over the past year, I’ve found myself returning again and again to one big question: How can we make conservation tech work where the wild really begins , where the signal drops, the power is limited,...

A new cross-sector initiative has launched in the UK to advance responsible applications of AI in nature restoration and enhancement. AI4Nature was formed to help ensure that innovation enhances ecological expertise rather than replacing it. AI tools are rapidly entering ecological workflows across habitat assessment, planning, monitoring, and reporting. However, AI uses enormous amounts of energy and water in data centers and can make big mistakes.