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AI technology helps protect sea turtle nests from feral pigs in north Queensland
Scientists and Indigenous rangers are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to help protect endangered sea turtle nesting sites on Queensland’s western Cape York.
Key points:
- Feral pigs feast on eggs laid by endangered sea turtles on Queensland’s Western Cape York
- Monitoring and management is reducing egg predation to as low as 30 per cent
- AI is reducing the time it takes to analyse data from six weeks to two hours
As recently as 2015, feral pigs were wiping out entire generations of turtles on kilometres of beaches south of Aurukun.
“They can smell the eggs, they dig up the nests and they eat the eggs,” James Cook University turtle researcher Jennie Gilbert said.
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