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‘There were stoats in kitchen cupboards’: AI deployed to help save Orkney’s birds

Stoats have been an existential threat to Orkney’s rare birds but technology is helping to eradicate themAt first, the stoat looks like a faint smudge in the distance. But, as it jumps closer, its sleek body is identified by a heat-detecting camera and, with it, an alert goes out to Orkney’s stoat hunters.Aided by an artificial intelligence programme trained to detect a stoat’s sinuous shape and movement, trapping teams are dispatched with the explicit aim of finding and killing it. It is the most sophisticated technology deployed in one of the world’s largest mammal eradication projects, which has the aim of detecting the few stoats left on Orkney. Continue reading...


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