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Arbimon December Newsletter

Read about what’s new with Arbimon! Our latest newsletter includes our recently published white paper on how ecoacoustics and AI can help track progress towards the Global Biodiversity Framework. You can also learn more about one of our projects in central Brazil, where we’re acoustically monitoring species across disturbance gradients. And hot off the press, Arbimon’s science team co-authored a new publication on using acoustic monitoring to track restoration progress in Ecuador.

monitoring biodiversity in Croatia’s wetlands

Rainforest Connection (RFCx), Arbimon, Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences at the University of Osijek, and Huawei Croatia have partnered with Kopački Rit Nature Park on an exciting 3-year project to monitor birds, frogs, and mammals in this Croatian park! We are using passive acoustic monitoring to survey biodiversity across the wetlands and surrounding forests in the park.

El Nuevo Día: Scientists use artificial intelligence to verify the presence of Puerto Rican parrots in Maricao

Researchers use a special platform, in addition to recorders, to monitor species, such as the endangered bird, throughout the archipelago.
Supported by artificial intelligence, scientists validated the presence of Puerto Rican parrots in Maricao , where biologists and state and federal natural resource conservation agencies seek to establish a permanent population of the endangered bird.

Real Leaders: Sounds That Save

Eco-acoustics and artificial intelligence help stop harmful activity in rainforests.
When people call to mind the sounds of rainforests, they likely drum up ideas of peaceful rains, gently rustling leaves, and a chorus of vibrant wildlife. But there are also disturbing sounds that are not often heard or thought of — noises of intruders on paths of destruction.

Soundscapes & deep learning enable tracking biodiversity recovery in tropical forests

Three members of RFCx’s science team are co-authors on a recent Nature Communications study examining how acoustic monitoring and AI can track forest restoration in the Choco region of Ecuador. The study involved deploying passive acoustic recorders across a restoration gradient, from active pastures and cacao plantations to abandoned pastures and plantations being naturally regenerated and finally to undisturbed forests. The authors combined expert identification of animal calls along with two automated methods, including one that utilized deep learning AI models. The study demonstrates that automated ecoacoustic monitoring can be used to track forest recovery, even beyond vocalizing vertebrates, suggesting its broad use to assess restoration outcomes.
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