08 - Keeping Track of Endangered Species with Zoë Jewell

Creating a Cooler World

How are scientists using AI to support research and conservation work? If you want hear from someone who is well versed in that field—someone who also understands how we can utilize cutting-edge technology while respecting traditional human knowledge and skills—you’ll enjoy our conversation with Zoë Jewell.
Zoë is co-founder of WildTrack, a nonprofit wildlife research organization that develops non-invasive and cost-effective methods to monitor endangered species. WildTrack combines advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence, and traditional ecological knowledge to identify and monitor animals in the wild. Their award-winning footprint identification technology (FIT) uses photos of animal footprints to identify species, individuals, sex, and age-class with over 90% accuracy.
In this episode, Zoë describes her first encounter with a rhino in the wild while monitoring black rhino in Zimbabwe. She explains how the impressive skills of indigenous Shona and Ndebele trackers inspired her and WildTrack co-founder Sky Alibhai to develop WildTrack's unique methods and technology.
Sign up for WildTrack’s newsletter, make a donation, or learn more about their work at https://www.wildtrack.org.
Or, get directly involved in WildTrack’s work! Start collecting footprints using their smartphone app. Go to https://www.wildtrack.org/get-involved/collect-footprints.

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