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Animals Crossing: AI Helps Protect Wildlife Across the Globe

NVIDIA AI Blog

From Seattle, Washington, to Cape Town, South Africa and everywhere around and between AI is helping conserve the wild plants and animals that make up the intricate web of life on Earth. Four of these partners Rouxcel Technology, OroraTech, Wildlife Protection Services and Conservation X Labs are highlighted below.

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Give a shirt: Changing slacktivists into activists

ASU Lodestar Center

A portion of sales from each shirt also aided the zoo’s work to conserve wild orangutans. Through the Duchess tee, DOAS provided a means to engagement that had more substance than social media promotions and allowed activists to personally become involved in the campaign.

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El Paso, Texas, just broke ground on the first U.S. facility to turn wastewater directly into drinking water

Fast Company Tech

In the 1990s, El Paso Water undertook an educational campaign to encourage residents to conserve water, which successfully brought down average consumption. Texas, Western States Move Ahead on Direct Potable Reuse The first direct potable reuse plant in the world opened in 1968 in Namibia, southern Africas driest country.

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