{"id":240646,"date":"2026-05-07T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/ai-cuts-wildlife-tracking-time-from-months-to-days\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:55:07","slug":"ai-cuts-wildlife-tracking-time-from-months-to-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/ai-cuts-wildlife-tracking-time-from-months-to-days\/","title":{"rendered":"AI cuts wildlife tracking time from months to days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1127123\">AI cuts wildlife tracking time from months to days<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1127123\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1127123<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 00:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.eurekalert.org\">www.eurekalert.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>image:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SpeciesNet&#8217;s AI prediction can be seen on an image of a lynx.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><br \/>\n                  view <span class=\"no-break-text\">more\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"credit\">Credit: Mammal Spatial Ecology and Conservation Lab<\/p>\n<p>PULLMAN,\u00a0Wash. \u2014 Artificial intelligence can dramatically speed up the painstaking work of tracking wildlife with remote cameras, cutting analysis time from months or even a year to just days while producing nearly the same scientific conclusions as humans.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to a new study led by researchers at Washington State University and Google, published in the\u00a0Journal of Applied Ecology. The team tested whether a fully automated AI\u00a0system could replace humans in processing hundreds of thousands to millions of camera trap images collected in Washington, Montana\u2019s Glacier National Park, and Guatemala\u2019s Maya Biosphere Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>They found that, for most species, models built from AI-identified images closely matched those produced by human experts. Across key measures such as where animals occur and what environmental factors influence them, the results aligned in roughly 85\u201390% of cases, with limited divergence for rare or difficult-to-identify species.<\/p>\n<p>The implications could be significant for conservation. Faster processing means researchers and wildlife managers can move more quickly from collecting data to making decisions, potentially enabling near real-time monitoring of species such as jaguars, wolves, and grizzly bears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to replace people,\u201d said WSU wildlife ecologist Daniel Thornton, lead author of the study. \u201cThe goal is to help researchers get&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1127123\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI cuts wildlife tracking time from months to days https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1127123 Publish Date: 2026-05-07 00:34:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mediasvc.eurekalert.org\/Api\/v1\/Multimedia\/0731c84d-4209-494c-bc09-91baf3b04845\/Rendition\/thumbnail\/Content\/Public","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240648,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240646\/revisions\/240648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}