Neurala fights poaching in Africa with AI-powered drones
Deep learning startup Neurala Inc. is applying its technology to a partnership with the Lindbergh Foundation that aims to combat illegal elephant poaching in Africa with artificial intelligence-powered drones.
Despite increased efforts to combat poaching in several African countries, the statistics remain rather grim. The Lindbergh Foundation says more than 100,000 elephants were killed in Africa from 2010 to 2012, with a further 40,000 killed in 2013. It reckons an elephant is killed once every 14 minutes in Africa – a rate that will see the animals extinct in just 10 years. Rhino poaching, meanwhile, has increased by 9,000 percent in South Africa since 2007, with one slaughtered every nine to 11 hours, the foundation said.
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