AI technology helps protect sea turtle nests from feral pigs in north Queensland
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Scientists say AI is helping them spend more time in the field protecting turtle nests and less time checking photos.
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Scientists and Indigenous rangers are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to help protect endangered sea turtle nesting sites on Queensland s western Cape York.
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Monitoring and management is reducing egg predation to as low as 30 per cent
AI is reducing the time it takes to analyse data from six weeks to two hours
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A solitary, tree-dwelling marsupial with big furry ears, large round eyes and a feather boa-like tail that lives in the eucalypt forests of eastern Australia, the greater glider is often described as a clumsy flying possum. Only cuter.
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