Revolutionizing Amazonian conservation with breakthrough technologies
Main Stage
The Amazon rainforest is one of the most crucial ecosystems on Earth — home to millions of people, vast stores of forest carbon, and irreplaceable biodiversity. Unfortunately, while restoration and conservation efforts are building resilience, deforestation and climate-driven wildfires are driving the basin toward irreversible tipping points, with dangerous consequences for the Amazon and the world.
Fortunately, breakthrough new technologies, including acoustic and camera sensors, DNA sequencing, satellites and artificial intelligence, can illuminate what’s happening across the Amazon as never before -- and help us take wise action to protect it. A new coalition of scientific institutions, field observatories, technologists, and governmental bodies has come together to harness these tools, in a “moonshot” effort called Amazon.ia, to help protect one of the planet’s most vital treasures.
Fortunately, breakthrough new technologies, including acoustic and camera sensors, DNA sequencing, satellites and artificial intelligence, can illuminate what’s happening across the Amazon as never before -- and help us take wise action to protect it. A new coalition of scientific institutions, field observatories, technologists, and governmental bodies has come together to harness these tools, in a “moonshot” effort called Amazon.ia, to help protect one of the planet’s most vital treasures.
