EarthRanger at COP16

Earth System - Harnessing AI for Environmental Impact | Ai2

In this session, we’ll delve into Ai2’s cutting-edge use of AI to tackle critical environmental issues. From addressing wildland fires and combating illegal fishing to enhancing wildlife conservation and understanding climate change, learn how Ai2 is employing AI to accelerate the way we protect our planet and its biodiversity.

Monitoring, Control and Surveillance of Future High Seas MPAs | Skylight

One of the challenges in implementing and enforcing high seas MPAs is ensuring effective monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS) of human activities, a key condition to avoid creating "paper parks. To this end, emerging technologies (e.g. satellite-based technologies, unmanned vehicles, artificial intelligence) offer increasingly cost-effective and accessible methods for conducting MCS activities on the high seas. However, under what conditions can these tools be effective? What enforcement and compliance mechanisms as well as technical and political measures need to accompany them? How can they be made accessible to developing countries?

Charting the Future -- Developing Conservation Technology for Biodiversity Monitoring

Conservation technology, including camera trapping, audio recording, movement tracking, remote sensing, and environmental DNA, has advanced rapidly, providing data to help the conservation community better understand how human impacts affect biodiversity and critical ecosystem dynamics (e.g., species distributions, changes in population density, individual movements, population trends, and habitat connectivity). New advances in analytical tools and technologies, especially conservation applications of artificial intelligence, have further increased the usefulness and power of these data. However, the application and scaling of these tools toward ecological monitoring and implementation of the GBF are still hampered by a lack of access, the disparate nature of data collection, and information gaps.

This session will discuss current and future technology, infrastructure, and technical capacity needs. It will also focus on how to democratize access to technology and data across all levels of governance and how to help build capacity and provide analysis tools so that CBD country experts and decision-makers are empowered to pursue their goals toward the implementation of the GBF priorities.

Transforming Wildlife Conservation with the Support of EarthRanger

How can real-time data transform conservation efforts and protect our planet's wildlife? Join us to explore EarthRanger, an innovative platform that provides conservationists with critical, real-time information. This system integrates data from remote sensing, field reports, and over 100 sources—such as animal collars and environmental sensors—to monitor wildlife, coordinate ranger units, and manage protected areas.

Leveraging iNaturalist Data for Global Biodiversity and Conservation | iNaturalist

iNaturalist, the world's largest citizen science platform, engages millions of users every month in documenting and identifying biodiversity across the globe. The wealth of data generated by this community is becoming an invaluable resource for scientific research and conservation efforts. We'll explore the nature of this data, its diverse applications—from discovering species and setting conservation priorities to monitoring invasive species and the significant role it plays in advancing scientific knowledge and supporting sustainable land management practices worldwide.

Leveraging iNaturalist Data for Global Biodiversity and Conservation | iNaturalist

iNaturalist, the world's largest citizen science platform, engages millions of users every month in documenting and identifying biodiversity across the globe. The wealth of data generated by this community is becoming an invaluable resource for scientific research and conservation efforts. We'll explore the nature of this data, its diverse applications—from discovering species and setting conservation priorities to monitoring invasive species and the significant role it plays in advancing scientific knowledge and supporting sustainable land management practices worldwide.

Transforming Wildlife Conservation with the Support of EarthRanger

How can real-time data transform conservation efforts and protect our planet's wildlife? Join us to explore EarthRanger, an innovative platform that provides conservationists with critical, real-time information. This system integrates data from remote sensing, field reports, and over 100 sources—such as animal collars and environmental sensors—to monitor wildlife, coordinate ranger units, and manage protected areas.

The Maldives Accelerator: Building a National Ecosystems Map | The Maldives, Global Ecosystem Atlas, and Ai2

This event will unveil the groundbreaking “accelerator” initiative of the Global Ecosystems Atlas in the Maldives. The initiative, furthered by an in-country workshop this July, aims to develop the Maldives’ first comprehensive national ecosystems map, aligned with the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Global Ecosystem Typing (GET) standards. The discussion will explore the initiative’s integration of local and international expertise-- especially the use of new technologies like the Global Ecosystems Atlas-- and its implications for biodiversity conservation. The discussion will also unpack the potential for scaling this approach beyond the Maldives.

Earth System - Harnessing AI for Environmental Impact

In this session, we’ll delve into Ai2’s cutting-edge use of AI to tackle critical environmental issues. From addressing wildland fires and combating illegal fishing to enhancing wildlife conservation and understanding climate change, learn how Ai2 is employing AI to accelerate the way we protect our planet and its biodiversity.

Transforming Wildlife Conservation with the Support of EarthRanger

How can real-time data transform conservation efforts and protect our planet's wildlife? Join us to explore EarthRanger, an innovative platform that provides conservationists with critical, real-time information. This system integrates data from remote sensing, field reports, and over 100 sources—such as animal collars and environmental sensors—to monitor wildlife, coordinate ranger units, and manage protected areas.

Scaling Biodiversity Monitoring through Artificial Intelligence (AI)

There is significant potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to contribute to our ability to monitor biodiversity at global scale in order to guide policies at global and national scales and target conservation resources where they are most needed. Challenges require innovation in both methods and the systems required to deploy them, and must be co-developed via close partnership across disciplines and geographies. This session will bring together experts across the fields of AI and ecology with focus on both research and practice to identify key gaps and bottlenecks, prioritize goals, and build collaborations for interdisciplinary solutions.

Combatting Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing with Cutting-Edge AI | Skylight

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing not only threatens marine ecosystems but also jeopardizes the livelihoods of millions who depend on fishing, impacting global food security. Tackling this challenge requires innovative solutions that can address the scale and complexity of IUU activities. In this session, we’ll delve into how AI is advancing how we protect our ocean. Skylight, Ai2’s advanced maritime monitoring and analysis platform, employs state-of-the-art AI, including computer vision and machine learning, to analyze vast amounts of data in near real-time.

Introducing Move BON and the Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration - Harnessing animal movement data to meet biodiversity goals

Combatting Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing with Cutting-Edge AI | Skylight

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing not only threatens marine ecosystems but also jeopardizes the livelihoods of millions who depend on fishing, impacting global food security. Tackling this challenge requires innovative solutions that can address the scale and complexity of IUU activities. In this session, we’ll delve into how AI is advancing how we protect our ocean. Skylight, Ai2’s advanced maritime monitoring and analysis platform, employs state-of-the-art AI, including computer vision and machine learning, to analyze vast amounts of data in near real-time.

Scaling Biodiversity Monitoring through Artificial Intelligence (AI)

There is significant potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to contribute to our ability to monitor biodiversity at global scale in order to guide policies at global and national scales and target conservation resources where they are most needed. Challenges require innovation in both methods and the systems required to deploy them, and must be co-developed via close partnership across disciplines and geographies. This session will bring together experts across the fields of AI and ecology with focus on both research and practice to identify key gaps and bottlenecks, prioritize goals, and build collaborations for interdisciplinary solutions.

Combatting Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing with Cutting-Edge AI | Skylight and presented in Spanish

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing not only threatens marine ecosystems but also jeopardizes the livelihoods of millions who depend on fishing, impacting global food security. Tackling this challenge requires innovative solutions that can address the scale and complexity of IUU activities. In this session, we’ll delve into how AI is advancing how we protect our ocean. Skylight, Ai2’s advanced maritime monitoring and analysis platform, employs state-of-the-art AI, including computer vision and machine learning, to analyze vast amounts of data in near real-time.

Earth System - Harnessing AI for Environmental Impact

In this session, we’ll delve into Ai2’s cutting-edge use of AI to tackle critical environmental issues. From addressing wildland fires and combating illegal fishing to enhancing wildlife conservation and understanding climate change, learn how Ai2 is employing AI to accelerate the way we protect our planet and its biodiversity.

Introducing Move BON and the Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration - Harnessing animal movement data to meet biodiversity goals

Mapping Nature’s Footprint: The Global Ecosystems Atlas at the MDB Pavilion

At its core, the Global Ecosystems Atlas is a pioneering geospatial data product, developed through integration of existing national and global data on ecosystem extent and new maps using high-resolution Earth observations. The Global Ecosystems Atlas will be an essential tool for all signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity and all stakeholders involved in the global effort to protect and restore our ecosystems. As a tool grounded in robust scientific processes producing high-quality trusted spatial data on ecosystems distribution and change, the Atlas will make information and ability to generate analysis accessible to users even with limited technical capacities.  

Scaling Biodiversity Monitoring through Artificial Intelligence (AI)

There is significant potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to contribute to our ability to monitor biodiversity at global scale in order to guide policies at global and national scales and target conservation resources where they are most needed. Challenges require innovation in both methods and the systems required to deploy them, and must be co-developed via close partnership across disciplines and geographies. This session will bring together experts across the fields of AI and ecology with focus on both research and practice to identify key gaps and bottlenecks, prioritize goals, and build collaborations for interdisciplinary solutions.