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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #302 Conservation, Community and AI: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Community Gold Champion — iNaturalist
Description: From habitat destruction, to use of pesticides, the arrival of invasive species and the growing impact of climate change, life, in all shapes and sizes, is fighting to survive. To protect the world’s biodiversity, first we have a better understanding of what and where that biodiversity is. In this episode we delve into iNaturalist, the 2024 Engineering Matters Community Gold Champion. iNaturalist is a citizen science community with thousands of active members sharing the wildlife around them with experts.
Alongside the experts giving support to users, iNaturalist have developed an AI that can identify rare species and ev...