Marnie Chesterton

So according to a recent UN report, this is happening around the globe.

A recent study presented at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues last month highlighted how indigenous peoples are harnessing AI as a powerful tool for environmental stewardship and conservation.

And another example is Chad, where indigenous pastoral communities have been combining participatory mapping, satellite data, and predictive analysis tools to anticipate droughts.

They're secure seasonal corridors and really mitigate resource-related conflicts.

OK.

And most importantly, Chad, being a country in Africa and thus earning you your absolutely meaningless points.

Thank you.

So I'm curious, Phyllis, you know, you often bring conservation stories, but do you have anything about AI being used for conservation?

Yes, Manny.

In fact, you've just reminded me Kenya was named one of Africa's leading countries in using AI for wildlife conservation.

So AI technologies are helping, you know, protect endangered species in the national parks and conservacies.

They're reducing poaching.

And also there are some organizations such as Wild Wildlife Fund and Wildlife Conservation Society.

They work with tech companies, you know, and local governments on these systems.

So, yes, it's being used in Africa a lot.

Is this AI as in the chat GPT that you ask a question and it maybe makes something up?

Or is this AI as in the large language models that you can feed just huge amounts of data into and they can give you accurate predictions of something that might take a researcher six months to do?

Okay, so for example, in Kenya, we've seen the AI camera traps.

So the camera traps, they use machine learning to automatically identify animals, you know, from thousands of images.

Yeah, yeah.