I’m really excited to see this. I’m optimistic that ecologists and conservation professionals will want to help with this. They WILL be excited to have an ally that cares about non-charismatic species. They are begging for more attention to the smaller foundational participants in the ecosystem. The field is also gradually becoming more pro-intervention. I am also optimistic that AI will contribute, and want to emphasize that a simple but important step is deploying far more field data loggers. The sooner you collect data, the sooner you have years of data to work with.
I’m really excited to see this. I’m optimistic that ecologists and conservation professionals will want to help with this. They WILL be excited to have an ally that cares about non-charismatic species. They are begging for more attention to the smaller foundational participants in the ecosystem. The field is also gradually becoming more pro-intervention. I am also optimistic that AI will contribute, and want to emphasize that a simple but important step is deploying far more field data loggers. The sooner you collect data, the sooner you have years of data to work with.