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Tanya Berger-Wolf: How your nature photos can help protect wild animals | TED

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December 25, 2021

We’re losing animal and plant species at such a swift, unprecedented rate that it’s nearly impossible to keep up. Computational biologist Tanya Berger-Wolf demonstrates how harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and one of the internet’s biggest resources — public images and video — supports the crucial collection of data to save threatened wildlife. Learn how your everyday photos, alongside the work of passionate citizen scientists, could help drive conservation decisions, and slow or even reverse damage to biodiversity worldwide.

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December 25, 2021 at 4:00 pm

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December 25, 2021 at 4:01 pm

Let’s take the moment to appreciate how much effort he puts into the content for us ????????????

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December 25, 2021 at 4:02 pm

Merry Christmas???????????? what gift did you got??? ????????????

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Mohammed Abakr

December 25, 2021 at 4:06 pm

Thank you from Sudan????????

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newyoungsgi

December 25, 2021 at 4:07 pm

If we don’t protect our planet, we will die together.

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Jan Klaas

December 25, 2021 at 4:07 pm

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STUDIO 9

December 25, 2021 at 4:15 pm

Wow a action very very nice

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Valentin

December 25, 2021 at 4:15 pm

Merry Christmas

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Mr. Extraordinary

December 25, 2021 at 4:24 pm

She looks delicious

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Make Racists Afraid Again

December 25, 2021 at 4:27 pm

Greetings
My Skunk clips are intended to help people see that they have an undeserved reputation. Skunks are sweet, gentle, curious and friendly.
But be nice to them first.
These are wild animals that you should want to have in your yard.

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SRS India

December 25, 2021 at 4:27 pm

Good informed

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arizona

December 25, 2021 at 4:32 pm

Amazing

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山林[기마이]巴拏巴

December 25, 2021 at 4:34 pm

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오늘도 영상 ????잘보고 갈께요~
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JessicaDarling2

December 25, 2021 at 4:42 pm

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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Toni

December 25, 2021 at 4:50 pm

We need first and formost to stop the death of the insects. This is being caused by toxins sprayed all over the world and it can’t do the bigger animals any good. It’s poisoning the plants and the whole lot has to exagurate upwards. We’ve lost 40% of our insects, this includes bees.

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Eli Nope

December 25, 2021 at 5:24 pm

We are losing biodiversity in the human population as well. Modern technology has allowed mass mixing of the populations, we are all becoming the same type of mutt. But all the same breed, and that removes the diversity of different types of humans. If something comes along that wipes out the universal mutt breed, no other breeds exist to survive such an event.

I don’t mean to make any of this racist. In fact the opposite, I want to preserve all of the “races” all of the cultures, and all of the histories that some people are trying to erase. All of them, with no exception.

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- John Simpson
  
  December 25, 2021 at 6:54 pm
  
  Could be a good thing
  
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Beng Raven

December 25, 2021 at 5:54 pm

Great news! Thank God!

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Seriously?!

December 25, 2021 at 6:50 pm

Her hair looks like it’s glitching in the thumbnail 😀

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Cool Girl 007

December 26, 2021 at 3:23 am

Good hearted people is doing good things, thank you

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R. Lipenthung Lotha

December 26, 2021 at 3:59 am

Very important and interesting

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doseoflifeandnature

December 26, 2021 at 4:08 am

Glad to hear AI is helping a good cause.

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Jochen Moehr

December 26, 2021 at 4:47 am

That’s all laudable & fine. But how can we contribute our wild life pictures? I got thousands!

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YOSAAAKSHI

December 26, 2021 at 10:24 am

the more you tried to keep them safe…more extinct you make them.

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HYX6

December 26, 2021 at 1:13 pm

thanks

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Marad Hero

December 26, 2021 at 1:16 pm

Wow! Really amazing! This works for Honey Bee also?

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Marad Hero

December 26, 2021 at 1:20 pm

Thank You very much! Never forget your compassion.

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pumpkin&chow

December 26, 2021 at 1:49 pm

Check me out I help nature by breeding reptiles that are normally taken from the wild and offer people captive bred animals so they aren’t taken from the wild and education is so important without people working with these amazing animals we wouldn’t know half of what we do and inspiring the younger generations is so important because we are slowly loosing animals from the wild and without people breeding them we could loose them forever because even some zoos don’t have success breeding and it’s dedicated keepers like myself that are having success and end up helping zoos. But I honestly love that others are using the fast amount of technology we have to help all the amazing animals that honestly need our help and protection ????????????????

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048 shiva prakash

December 26, 2021 at 2:09 pm

I wanna know how can I help

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yensteel

December 27, 2021 at 3:20 am

Cameras+gps are horrible for some animals as it gives poachers information on their whereabouts. It is best to disable gps details when you post on social media, or don’t use GPS at all when taking pictures of such animals.

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December 27, 2021 at 5:44 am

DISLIKE

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Martin Scharrel

December 27, 2021 at 11:06 am

In the latest app version (IOS), the videos play badly every now and then and sometimes I only have black screen. What is the reason for this?

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Sitra Radliyah

December 27, 2021 at 3:46 pm

So where can people send/ post their wildlife pics to help with this program?

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- uzumaki shikamaru
  
  January 1, 2022 at 3:00 pm
  
  Your social media
  
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Kevin Luo

December 28, 2021 at 2:12 am

Don’t forget smaller things like insects which are also affected but receive much less attention that the iconic giraffes and elephants.

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AnyBody Can Draw Easily

December 29, 2021 at 2:35 pm

Great work folks

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uzumaki shikamaru

January 1, 2022 at 3:00 pm

But how if the photos have been edited, can the AI detect that?

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