Meet the AI that hunts poachers
Meet PAWS - the elephant’s new protector. This new machine-learning and game-theory system can predict where poachers are likely to strike. Poachers kill around 27,000 African elephants each year. This represents around 8% of their total population and, if unchecked, could drive them to extinction within the next...
Pembient believes Biotech can Save the Rhino.
Pembient is a Seattle-based biotech startup. The company hopes to combine 3D printing with some basic economics to solve the rhino poaching crisis. Their idea is simple - "bio-fabricate" rhino horns out of keratin (the material that fingernails, hair and most animal horns are built from) and then...