Archive for October, 2025

Using Technology To Stop Asia’s Deadly Elephant Wars
October 11th, 2025

Via Nikkei Asia, a look at how technology such as thermal drones, AI, and acoustic sensors are being used to stop the conflict between elephants and their deadliest enemy: man Thermal drones are launched. Artificial intelligence and acoustic sensors are activated to pinpoint targets. Armed rangers are sent out on patrols. Such innovations have found […]

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New technical innovations such as location-tracking devices, GPS and satellite communications, remote sensors, laser-imaging technologies, light detection and ranging” (LIDAR) sensing, high-resolution satellite imagery, digital mapping, advanced statistical analytical software and even biotechnology and synthetic biology are revolutionizing conservation in two key ways: first, by revealing the state of our world in unprecedented detail; and, second, by making available more data to more people in more places. The mission of this blog is to track these technical innovations that may give conservation the chance – for the first time – to keep up with, and even get ahead of, the planet’s most intractable environmental challenges. It will also examine the unintended consequences and moral hazards that the use of these new tools may cause.Read More

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