How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Protect Tigers In India

Despite the growing population of tigers in India, many problems including poaching and natural causes are making it difficult for these majestic animals to survive. Now, new technologies like artificial intelligence, geographic information system tools and movement detectors, are changing the way tiger reserves and conservation bodies are working across India.
“For an animal that requires no human intervention to thrive, yet needs human protection, technology may be the only path to conservation,” wrote Souma Das, managing director at Teradata India, for a national newspaper.
For example, earlier this year, the All-India Tiger Estimation, 2018 exercise explained how the current assessment for tiger conservation used Android-based application and desktop version of M-STrIPES (Monitoring System for Tigers-Intensive Protection and Ecological Status) for collecting, archiving and analysing data. The mobile phone-based application automatically records the track log of surveys and line transects, as well as authenticates the recorded data on signs and animal sightings with geo-tagged photographs.
A statement issued by the Press Information Bureau for the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, stated that with increased camera trap density and the use of android technology, estimates arrived at are likely to be more robust — both in terms of accuracy and precision.
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