AI and drones lead global fight for wildlife in Samarkand talks
Experts at the 20th CITES Conference reveal wildlife crime worth up to €22B annually, putting 40,000+ species at risk and boosting tech monitoring efforts.
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00:00Illegal wildlife trafficking is a booming black market business worth an estimated 6.6 to 21.9 billion euros a year.
00:11Delegates at the 20th Sides Conference in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, laid out the scale of the crisis, as over 40,000 species are currently threatened.
00:20As it was explained, conservation teams and border agents are fighting back with an arsenal of new tech.
00:27From digital tracking tools to cutting-edge science.
00:31More and more there's drones being used to be able to monitor animals in the various ecosystems in which they are present.
00:38To be able to count and to be able to also see if there's any criminality being involved there.
00:45Across Central Asia, national agencies ramp up their use of accessible conservation technology.
00:51New tools also reshape how communities and inspectors work together.
01:20While animals are monitored through AI and aerial tools, plant science also steps into digital and molecular era.
01:48We are now at the Almost Negative Humanity of Trial of Life in Uzbekistan,езar by Uzbekistan,
01:53To be able to deliver some of the data available on the new data available for the virus.
01:56We have 11,9% of the environment, and probably 9,9% of the first time.
02:01The other world has a deployment.
02:03The human and DNA knowledge and Liberation of DNA are integrated.
02:07Through Sni intellect and 20-gram applications, we are available on the 19th Satellite data.
02:15tablets, drones and handheld analyzers now from one connected ecosystem.
02:20These tools speed up nature protection, they sharpen detection, help stop crime
02:25and also support long-term biodiversity research.
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