Rainforest Connection (RFCx) uses acoustics and AI technology to protect and monitor ecosystems, creating a local solution that powers a global network.
Many thanks to
@huawei
and everyone who participated in
#ChristmasTree4Earth
by sharing your Christmas trees. We have raised money that will go a long way in protecting our world’s rainforests!
Solving environmental crises requires listening to what nature has to say.
Hear how this idea helps RFCx Director of International Expansion, Chrissy Durkin, protect the rainforest on the
#TEDx
#DrivenByPressure
livestream on April 7 at 4 PM (GMT+8).
#TECH4ALL
It's
#BiodiversityDay
! What a diverse world it is! 🦋🐸🐒😍
How are YOU helping protect natural places and species? Comment below or join our movement and see how you can get involved by going to today!
✅Smart
✅Free
✅403,900+ hectares monitored & counting…
@RainforestCx
's
#Arbimon
platform puts the power of smart biodiversity conservation into the hands of many. 🔽
#Tech4Nature
What are you seeing here?
You're looking at a stream of real-time audio data gathered by one of our monitoring devices.
It's being submitted as courtroom evidence in a case against illegal loggers in the Amazon Rainforest.
This is only the beginning.
Alongside our partners at
@HUAWEI_TECH4ALL
this
#EarthDay
we're hoping to voice the importance of investing in conservation and encourage others to
#InvestInOurPlanet
. As our CEO, Bourhan Yassin, displays: "Ecoacoustic analysis tech helps monitor and protect species."! To protect
Human activities &
#climatechange
are endangering the richly diverse habitats and
#endemic
and
#threatened
species in the Dzilam State Reserve.
Read about what we're doing to protect species like the Jaguar alongside
@HUAWEI_TECH4ALL
in this project➡️
12 million acres of rainforest are destroyed every year, threatening a million species with extinction. We need to do better - we need to work faster. Protecting rainforests and biodiversity is hard. But with our AI, acoustic technology, and our partnerships, we’re making it more
🚨Our RFCx team is part of a new publication!
Hot off the press in
@NatureComms
, this study used
#ecoacoustics
and AI models to track forest restoration in the Choco region of Ecuador🇪🇨
We found strong correlations between audio-derived
#biodiversity
metrics across a
Studying
#biodiversity
and preventing poaching in Italy!🌿🎧
With
@HUAWEI_TECH4ALL
&
@WWFitalia
we have collected 272,452 recordings from 72 sites here in our
#Arbimon
platform! Learn more about the project, the species & listen to their calls here!👇
WE'RE HIRING a Project Manager! 🤩 If you or someone you know may be a fit get the details & apply here ➡ . Work with our partners around the world to deliver on all project deliverables and help us conserve this wonderful world! 🌍
Rainforest Connection is hiring!
We’re looking for an independent, proactive, and detail-oriented individual to intern with us and become our Data Discovery Specialist! This internship is best suited for those are interested in conservation tech and AI.
Excited to welcome
@Carly_Batist
as our new Science Outreach Coordinator! 🎉She's finishing her Ph.D. in primatology & has an impressive track record working in conservation with passive acoustic monitoring,
#ML
, and education/outreach. Thrilled to have you on the team Carly!
*NEW* White Paper: Harnessing the Power of Sound & AI to track Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) Targets. Biodiverse ecosystems are vital to the health of our planet! Read our new paper to:
🦾 Dive into the power of ecoacoustics & AI to monitor biodiversity
🎯See how they can
Happy
#WorldWildlifeDay
! Over the past year, RFCx technology has advanced through a comprehensive biodiversity monitoring program. This allows local partners to measure patterns of wildlife activity, in addition to detecting human threats to vulnerable forests.
#Tech4Wildlife
It's official...we're in an Apple TV+ series.
Looking for something new to watch?
#Earthsounds
is now streaming on
@AppleTV
! Get ready to hear our planet like never before. 🐸🐋🔊
See how our work in acoustics is contributing to a global network of data and tangible
Showing our Tech in Action for Day 1 of
@WILDLABSNET
's
#Tech4Wildlife
photo challenge! 🐦🧑💻🌎 Get ready for this week-long feature bringing together users and makers of
#conservationtech
worldwide celebrating innovations and ideas, successes, and the incredible
#wildlife
and
Last week our field team headed to Puerto Rico to create a population baseline for bird and anuran species distributions across 900 sites in a partnership with
@DRNAPR
,
@USFWSSoutheast
, and
@paralanaturalez
! Check it out!
Read our latest
#publication
! 🙌 Acoustic monitoring &
#AI
are game-changers for tracking
#gbf
targets. 💫 PLUS see real
#insights
and
#results
from 11 use cases from our projects around the world!
Dig in ▶️ ...
Get the summary ▶️
The new RFCx Arbimon is now live! We’re excited to share that RFCx Arbimon will be free and unlimited to all new and existing users starting today! Check it out to start analyzing your audio now!
"In 2022, 38,000 species were at risk of extinction". Great coverage on the project in the Dzilam State Reserve in Mexico! Learn what this project is doing to protect these species right now ⬇️🇲🇽
We’re excited to share that RFCx Arbimon will be free with unlimited processing and storage to all new and existing users starting on Oct. 14, 2020! Use any snippet of audio to automatically search your whole audio library for a match.
#ecoacoustics
#biodiversitymonitoring
#RFCx
We're already having an awesome time at
#ICCB2023
!
Stop by our booth (
#9
) to meet
@MarconiCamposC1
&
@Carly_Batist
AND get a chance to win an Audiomoth in our
#MarchMammalMadness
-inspired tournament of animal calls!🔊 Instructions below👇
Not at ICCB? You can still participate!
What does a thriving ecosystem sound like? This
#WorldEnvironmentDay
on June 5, 1600-1730 (GMT+2), join us at the Smarter Biodiversity Conservation livestream & listen in on the latest development in conservation. Learn more:
#Tech4Nature
#TECH4ALL
Thanks to everyone at
#IPSKuching
who came to our passive acoustic monitoring workshop, led by our (lemur-loving) Science Outreach Coordinator,
@Carly_Batist
!
Such a great time connecting with primatologists from around the world and discussing the power of
#ecoacoustics
and
#ML
We're excited to be speaking at the
#Audiomoth
online conference!🔊
Our own
@Carly_Batist
will be presenting "Using acoustic monitoring to evaluate the impacts of community-led conservation around floodplain lakes of the Juruá River, Brazil" on Sept. 26th at 2pm EDT
Register
Tickets are live! Grab the early bird pricing while you can (until 8th Sep). We're getting 12 talks instead of the initial 8 but the price remains the same. Retweets would be much appreciated!
#conference
#bioacoustics
#science
#audiomoth
Happy holidays from
@RainforestCx
!
This next year, let's all try and agree - despite our billion-fold and legitimate personal differences and grievances - to unite and save the ecological future of this planet we all share.
Enjoy your holidays! Long live the rainforest!!
🟣*COOL FINDING*🟣 For the first time we have detected the critically endangered Helmeted Hornbill (Buceros vigil) in one of our projects in Asia!
This species is increasingly difficult to find in nature due to deforestation and poaching. Finding it shows
New project is launching in Costa Rica! ✨🇨🇷🦜
We are officially working with
@Huawei
CR,
@MacawNetwork
,
@sheffielduni
, and Tropical Science Center on this project! The focus here will be on monitoring the vocalization of the Great Green Macaw and seven other parrot species in
RFCx Chief Scientist, Marconi Campos, has co-authored a percent paper published in Trends in Parasitology that highlights how acoustic monitoring can be used to help track infectious disease risks! The capabilities just keep expanding!
Read about it 👉
Thanks to
@Google
for inviting us to write a guest blog post! It's wonderful to see so much interest in how technology (of all shapes and sizes) can play a role in protecting indigenous Amazon tribes and the forests they inhabit.
We are looking for passionate individuals to fill the following unpaid internship opportunities:
- Social Media Intern
- Product Support Interns
- Alert Management Interns
- Business Strategy & Growth Intern
- Grant Management Intern
Email contact
@rfcx
.org
**A MUST READ** Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future.
👉Read this recent publication > co-authored by RFCx Chief Scientist, Marconi Campos-Cerqueira, and 124 other
A cell tower grows in the heart of Tembé country in the Brazilian Amazon. By providing the Tembé tribe with their own private cellular network, we seek to give them an expanded means of detecting real-time incursions by loggers, poachers, and narcotraffickers onto their lands.
Did you know that the elusive Central African forest
#elephant
uses infrasound “rumbles,” undetectable by the human ear, to chat with each other over vast distances of dense
#forest
?
With the power of RFCx Arbimon’s analysis tool, you can now detect hundreds of species by adding a pattern matching template from our global library to your Arbimon project!
See how easy it is by heading to & our team is here to answer any questions!
🌟 NEW PROJECT HIGHLIGHT 🌟
Monitoring Biodiversity in Croatia's Wetlands
📍 Location: Kopački Rit Nature Park
🎯 Focus: survey biodiversity across the wetlands and surrounding forests
🤝 Partners: Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences at the University of Osijek, Kopacki Rit
NEW PROJECT LAUNCH: Colombia! Our RFCx Guardians are now keeping an eye, or rather an ear, on the surrounding area! We'll be protecting it from illegal activities and monitoring the biodiversity including the blue-bulled currassow, jaguar, South American tapir, and spider monkey!
The RFCx Platform gives people the ability to monitor for endangered and threatened species via audio streams. The RFCx Explorer tool displays bioacoustic data as spectrograms, enabling users to tag the calls of species that they identify in the audio. (1/2)
So excited to be announcing this partnership with one of the leading players in audio technology...
@Sonos
👏🔥!
Through the Sonos Regenerative Sound program, they are helping to support our projects worldwide 🌏. Also believing in the power of sound to
Hi, I'm Tomaz Melo, an RFCx Biodiversity Scientist! Fun facts: 📸 I'm a sneaky good photographer, 🌴 and I'm based in Brazil. I love knowing that my work helps others understand biodiversity better, generates scientific knowledge, and helps partners in decision-making!
#dreamteam
We are honored and proud to announce that Rainforest Connection has won a grant from
@Googleorg
as part of the
#GoogleAI
Impact Challenge! We will be receiving funding, coaching and access to computing resources from Google.
@googlecloud
@GoogleAI
#io19
Did you know: The role of frugivorous seed-dispersing birds is fundamental in the process of forest restoration? That's right, this Swallow-tailed Manakin captured regurgitating a seed of fruit in the Atlantic Forest may just be holding a potential future tree right in its beak!
This Thanksgiving we’d like to express our gratitude to all of our partners, team members, and friends of RFCx. Together we’re able to make a difference to better protect our natural world. Thank you to each and every one of you! 🌎💚
#Thanksgiving2021
#ClimateCrisis
#Thankful
It's SOLD OUT! Our Chief Scientist, Marconi Campos-Cerqueira, will be running sold out workshops, and presenting at the American Ornithological Society + Bird Caribbean 2022 tomorrow! 📣Stay in touch for upcoming events & learn from the best!
@AmOrnith
#AOS_BC_22
#datascience
Getting the attention of
@Bloomberg
! Co-created with our science team and published in
@NatureComms
, did you catch the latest piece on tracking
#forest
#restoration
with
#AI
? 🌳
The study featured used
#ecoacoustics
and AI models to track forest restoration in the Choco region