How AI has changed the game in wildlife conservation, ocean clean-up

Garbage and pollution on a Tropical beach. [Courtesy]

Three weeks ago, a group of scientists published a report revealing that conservationists have been overestimating wildebeest numbers during the annual Serengeti-Mara migration.

Using artificial intelligence tools, the experts concluded that the migrating herds number fewer than 600,000 individuals, approximately half the widely cited estimate of 1.3 million wildebeest, a figure that has remained largely unchanged since the 1970s.