Google's New AI Project Could Be a Conservation Game Changer

All around the world, conservationists and biologists have hard drives full of millions of camera trap photos. Going through these images can be laborious and time-consuming, but a new program--a partnership between Google and several conservation organizations--simplifies the process with the help of artificial intelligence. Wildlife Insights, an online portal with more than 4.5 million photos dating back to 1990, launched Tuesday. Anyone, anywhere can access the photos and pinpoint the location of wildlife. And the site also invites collaborators to drop their own camera trap images to map creatures around the world and grow the database.