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iTWire Monday, 10 May 2021 20:38 Hitachi Social Innovation Forum 2021 AMERICAS to ‘showcase how data driven leaders are changing the world’ Shares Promising visionary speakers that will highlight how data-driven strategies are transforming industries, predicting the future, and safeguarding society and the environment, Hitachi’s three-day virtual forum looks set to be spectacular. The free three-day virtual event will showcase visionaries and practitioners who are leading a...

Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Huawei’s Joy Tan to Discuss AI Climate Solutions at Foreign Policy’s Virtual Climate Summit April 22, 2021 GMT (PRNewsfoto/Huawei Device USA) PLANO, Texas, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei Technologies USA’s Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, Joy Tan, will be participating on a panel at Foreign Policy’s upcoming Virtual Climate Summit. Taking place on April 27 and 28, the event will brin...

9 sustainable experiences in Latin America From horseriding with Argentinian cowboys to planting trees in Peru, here are nine ways your next trip to Latin America can benefit the environment and local communities 1. Explore primary rainforest in Costa Rica Costa Rican rainforest (Shutterstock) Sustainability and environmental awareness are at the heart of Costa Rica’s tourism ethos, with the country receiving the UNs highest environmental honour, the Champions of the Earth award. Exodus Trave...

ITU Naleku and Roho spend a lot of time squabbling with each other on Instagram. The two young friends from East Africa are orphan elephants, among the youngest in the care of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. The Trust, which runs an elephant rescue and rehabilitation programme, uses its social media account to raise awareness about the disappearance of wildlife habitats. This includes sharing the stories of the elephants with its 840,000 followers. Instagram is only one way to build a community t...

Getty Images / WIRED If a tree is illegally cut down in a remote section of the rainforest, does anyone hear the sound? If that section of the rainforest is using Rainforest Connection’s treetop surveillance technology, then yes, someone actually does hear the sound. They also act on it. The forest-monitoring technology, dubbed “Forest Guardians”, started off in 2012 as an idea to use recycled, solar-powered cellphones fitted with artificial intelligence software to monitor the activity a...

Clipped onto a rope, climbing high up in a tree swaying in gusts of wind, Topher White finally reaches the roof of the rainforest and opens a laptop to run checks on a machine he built to transmit 24-hour live sound from the surrounding forest.

7 Min Read SOLOK, Indonesia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Clipped onto a rope, climbing high up in a tree swaying in gusts of wind, Topher White finally reaches the roof of the rainforest and opens a laptop to run checks on a machine he built to transmit 24-hour live sound from the surrounding forest. The machine is one of 27 “Guardian” sensors eavesdropping on forests in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province, to listen out for chainsaws as a way to tackle illegal logging in the region. Over...

17th December 2020 1:02 pm Hitachi Vantara and Rainforest Connection have announced a solution using cloud-based AI software to predict illegal logging and prevent deforestation. Rainforest Connection CEO Topher White with guardian device on forest treetop Non-profit organisation Rainforest Connection aims to make a difference in the fight against climate change using its ‘guardian’ devices – small, android-run devices placed in the rainforest treetops – to pick up sounds and stream t...

Dec 10, 2020 1. Conserving species The Living Planet Index produced by WWF estimates that wildlife population sizes have dropped by 68 per cent since 1970. The charity advocates the use of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool of conservation technology to monitor and curb this alarming rate of decline. One of the most useful applications is in acoustic monitoring, recording the sounds of wildlife ecosystems on weatherproof sensors. Many animals, from birds and bats to mammals and even inver...