AI-powered camera traps give Gabon wildlife rangers a new tool in the fight against poaching and biodiversity loss. With around 24 million hectares of forest, Gabon is a biodiversity hotspot, including hosting one of the largest populations of the critically endangered African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). Now, researchers from the University of Stirling, UK, are using a new kind of camera trap to help monitor and protect this and other species. Traditional monitoring systems use cameras deployed in the field, but the results are often collected and analysed months later. "This tells you where the animals were," says Robin Whytock, who led the team behind the new camera traps.