According to the WWF’s Living Planet Report, populations of monitored wildlife species have dropped nearly 70% since 1970. Yet, measuring what’s happening in the world’s most remote places has always been a challenge. Protecting biodiversity starts with better data. That’s why Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab created SPARROW: a breakthrough tool that uses solar power, AI, and satellite connectivity to deliver real-time insights from even the most inaccessible places on Earth. With SPARROW, conservationists can act faster to safeguard endangered species and restore vital ecosystems. 🌍 Learn more about how this technology is advancing conservation: https://msft.it/6040tJ07i

Can technology help us save the planet? AI and Digital Twin systems are transforming how we monitor, predict, and protect biodiversity, from rainforests and coral reefs to urban ecosystems. By merging real-time environmental data with intelligent modeling, researchers can now anticipate deforestation, track species migration, and restore habitats before collapse. This is more than innovation, it’s a digital revolution for nature. Explore how AI and Digital Twins are reshaping global conservation efforts in “Digital Twins Meet Biodiversity”, now on https://lnkd.in/e2E6JePH #ComputationalScience #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTwins #Sustainability #ResearchInnovation #EnvironmentalMonitoring #ClimateTech #MachineLearning #ScienceCommunication #FutureOfScience #Biotational

#EMBRCEUproject| 👉 Building the digital twin of marine life 🇪🇺 In Europe, there has been huge progress in collecting and harmonising marine biodiversity data and making them widely available, but much of the data being collected is currently inaccessible. 🔵 The DTO-BioFlow project aims to unlock those “sleeping” biodiversity data and create a digital replica of marine biological processes  👉 The project will work on consolidating standards, quality control, comms protocols and harmonisation pipelines to improve the interoperability and digitisation of biodiversity data. 👉 It will also test affordable and adaptable technologies that can carry out species monitoring on a massive scale. Read about the project at https://lnkd.in/eHfG9uky #DTOBioFlow #BiodiversityData #MarineBiodiversity #MarineData Ioulia Santi Christina Pavloudi VLIZ - Flanders Marine Institute Katrina Exter CIIMAR Sorbonne Université HCMR

How can technology help us better understand and protect biodiversity? At the Biodiversity Conference 2025, Dr Jasmine Muir, FrontierSI’s Resources Lead, will share how remote sensing and machine learning are changing the way we monitor our environment in near real time. Jasmine will showcase ENVestigator, FrontierSI’s innovative suite of tools that combines remote sensing and machine learning to deliver near real-time insights for smarter environmental management and reporting. Built in collaboration with partners across research and industry, ENVestigator helps organisations monitor vegetation and waterbodies, assess land management practices, and make confident, data-driven decisions for a more sustainable future. At FrontierSI, we are committed to turning research and innovation into practical tools that support governments and industry to manage our environment responsibly and deliver real impact. If you’re attending the Biodiversity Conference or would like to learn more about ENVestigator, reach out to Jasmine or the FrontierSI team to explore how ENVestigator can help your organisation make confident, data-driven decisions. Learn more about ENVestigator here: https://lnkd.in/gHnTGCC7 #EarthObservation #MachineLearning #Sustainability #Innovation #Resources

Biodiversity Regeneration Engines Climate change has a dashboard. Biodiversity loss does not—yet. Species collapse, soil degradation, and ecosystem fragmentation are treated as background noise until it is too late. Biodiversity Regeneration Engines propose treating ecosystems as first-class assets with telemetry, models, and incentives to match. Using remote sensing, genomics, acoustic monitoring, and local field data, we can build living models of forests, oceans, wetlands, and farmlands—and optimize for regeneration, not just extraction. The book sketches how to connect these models to capital flows: performance-based conservation finance, insurance products keyed to ecosystem resilience, and regulation that treats biodiversity indices as hard constraints, not aspirational KPIs. It also addresses indigenous knowledge, land rights, and the ethics of “financializing” nature. We cannot reverse ecological damage with dashboards alone. But without engines that couple measurement, modeling, and capital, we will continue to fly blind. This is an attempt to put a price on the most valuable balance sheet humanity has: the living systems that make everything else possible. Full book: https://lnkd.in/dMGsZgyH #Biodiversity #NatureTech #ClimateFinance #Regeneration #Conservation #ESG #EarthObservation #PlanetaryHealth #ImpactInvesting #SystemsEcology

Outside my work on speech biomarkers at thymia, I've been collaborating with an amazing team on applying AI to biodiversity conservation; building on the work we started a few years back with the software CAPTAIN we now have a new published paper! The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework's '30 by 30' goal (protecting 30% of Earth's land and sea by 2030) has hopefully reached beyond the biodiversity community, as this incredible opportunity for nature conservation and restoration affects everyone. From our abstract: "Given financial constraints, the ‘easiest’ approach to comply would be to protect the cheapest areas. But what would this mean for biodiversity conservation, and how could financial disclosure support — or undermine — success?" Working with Daniele Silvestro, Alexandre Antonelli, Thomas Sterner, and Ben Groom, we investigated how different selection criteria affect both ecological and economic outcomes in restoration planning. Our findings reveal that commonly used simplified metrics in financial reporting can actually underperform significantly compared to more holistic approaches. Using reinforcement learning in our CAPTAIN software, we achieved substantially better biodiversity results in our simulations. Full open-access paper: https://lnkd.in/eKsSxXxc #Biodiversity #Conservation #ReinforcementLearning #AI #Sustainability #30by30 #GBF

If you work in ecology, conservation, or sustainability, this is a goldmine you’ll want to bookmark. The Nature Tech Directory (Prototype) is a free, open-source global platform mapping the growing world of nature-tech innovations from biodiversity monitoring and restoration tools to AI for conservation, and more. It helps you: 🌏 Discover emerging solutions for nature-positive outcomes 🤝 Find partners, innovators, and collaborators across sectors 📊 Track global trends in tech-driven conservation 💡 Identify gaps and opportunities for research or investment In a world where climate and biodiversity challenges need scalable solutions, platforms like this make it easier to discover what’s working and who’s building it. I’ve been exploring it to understand how technology is reshaping conservation and it’s fascinating to see just how much innovation is happening worldwide. 🔗 Check it out here: naturetechdirectory.com #NatureTech #NaturePositive #AIforNature #EnvironmentalWisdom #TechforNature

🌿 The University of Surrey’s Space4Nature project is being showcased by the UK Government at #COP30 Using satellite data, AI and citizen science, the project maps habitats across Surrey to guide biodiversity restoration. #Biodiversity #COP30 #SpaceTech #AI #NatureRecovery #Sustainability #Space4Nature #UniversityofSurrey University of Surrey https://lnkd.in/e8U2gRwi

eDNA technology – transforming how we measure nature "All life – from bacteria to blue whales – leaves tiny traces of DNA in its environment. eDNA technology allows us to collect samples of these fragments to reveal a complete picture of the biodiversity of that ecosystem." "Nature performance monitoring and eDNA technology enable us to translate the complexity of biodiversity into crucial metrics that describe the ecological health, function, components and traits of the different forms of life within an ecosystem" https://lnkd.in/gxAvC35X https://lnkd.in/gzNxjyVN https://lnkd.in/gu4zrYAW Our ReefShip visually integrates itself within the local reef while addressing our project goals of coral habitation, sustaining diverse faunal communities, and creating a platform for local jobs. Its simple design eases manufacturing and deployment time within a stable modular platform. The ReefShip also creates a platform for collaboration with local restoration groups by providing an artificial platform for experimentation and restoration. The modular nature of the design enables deeply unique approaches to serving objectives. This allows for the freedom to make targeted and local solutions, housings for specific scientific equipment, and integrations with tourism and coral out-planting goals. Mile After Mile of Coastal Protection https://lnkd.in/gd7qmtpp

Connecting habitats holds many benefits for biodiversity. Our new paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity calls for conservation priorities to also incorporate the costs of connectivity too: https://lnkd.in/eizwnN6v We draw particularly attention to emerging evidence surrounding infectious disease, invasive species spread, genetic costs and propagation of ecological disturbance. Fortunately, promising approaches for avoiding these costs are arising, and more research is now needed to fully integrate costs (and their potential mitigation methods) into decision-making frameworks for creating a ‘Well-Connected’ Earth.