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SUMMARY:Real-time Wildlife Monitoring - Tom Ratsakatika\, University of Ca
 mbridge
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UID:TALK213082@talks.cam.ac.uk
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DESCRIPTION:This research introduces an AI-based alert system to reduce hu
 man-wildlife conflicts in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains. Globally\, co
 nflicts between people and wildlife are rising due to population growth\, 
 shifting land use patterns and climate change. In Romania\, mountain commu
 nities are impacted by bears and wild boars\, which damage livestock\, cro
 ps and property. These conflicts can undermine conservation efforts and ma
 y result in the killing of problematic animals. In collaboration with Fund
 ația Conservation Carpathia\, this research supports Rapid Intervention T
 eams who respond to wildlife activity in mountain villages. Six years of c
 amera trap data are used to train and test AI models to detect and classif
 y European mammals. These models are integrated into an alert system and d
 eployed in three locations. The new pipeline improves on the state-of-the-
 art for detecting and classifying bears and wild boars. Preliminary result
 s from the field deployment show a positive impact on conservation efforts
 . This is the first known study to use remote processing of 4G-enabled cam
 era trap images to operate a human-wildlife conflict alert system. It is a
 lso the first known study to design and evaluate all stages of an AI-based
  wildlife alert system\, from data collection and model training to field 
 deployment and conservation impact.\n\nBio:\nTom is an MRes student on the
  AI for Environmental Risk Centre for Doctoral Training at the University 
 for Cambridge. He previously spent 10 years working for the UK's Foreign\,
  Commonwealth and Development Office\, where he designed and managed susta
 inable development projects while on postings in DRC\, Sierra Leone and Ta
 nzania.
LOCATION:FW11\, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zo
 om.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon 
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