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Near threatenedBARRINGTON TOPS, AUSTRALIA

Project overview

Aussie Ark is running the world's first successful captive breeding program for the Broad-toothed Rat, an insurance population for a species now confined to a handful of remote swamps in Eastern Australia.

The challenge

Monitoring a captive breeding population day-to-day by hand is slow and labour-intensive, and doesn't scale as the program grows.

Our solution

An AI model trained to automate monitoring of captive animals, deployed on the breeding facility's existing cameras once accuracy is validated.

Tech deployed

  • AI/ML monitoring
  • Existing camera infrastructure
  • A Broad-toothed Rat feeding among sub-alpine grasses.
  • Photograph from the Aussie Ark breeding programme.

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