Across Africa, home-grown tech solutions are being designed to protect nature and people, from using artificial intelligence to monitor illegal logging or predict against floods, to building solar projects that power irrigation. Tech experts say the surge of innovations faces challenges including shortages of funding and frequent power cuts, but this can also drive solutions such as greater use of solar power.
Africa’s tech-for-nature innovations aim to make the most of its natural resources; its abundant sunshine and the wildlife that brings in tourists. Here are some examples. From Tanzania to South Africa, AI is being used to monitor animals and send alerts to rangers when suspicious activity indicates poachers may be lurking, or animals may be about to encroach into villages or fields.
WildNET, developed in Tanzania, combines solar-powered cameras, mini-computers and AI image recognition to monitor elephant movement and prevent deadly clashes with humans.
Source: ECEEE
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