Can AI text signals help save snow leopards from disappearing?

Snow leopards cannot grow. Thus, when you step towards one of these severe predators, he is cleaned.

As noted, “Favorite”, 12 years ago, Pakistan was orphaned and rescued in Gilgit-Baltistan.

After trusting to feed employees, it does not know how to hunt in the wild and cannot be set for free.

“If we release him, he simply attacked the sheep of a farmer,” said, “Favorite” Karetoz, Tehzeeb Hussein.

Despite the laws that protect them, 221 and 450 Snow Leopard is killed, the World Fund in the world, which contributes to a 20% reduction in global population in the last two decades.

More than half of these deaths took revenge for the loss of cattle.

Now, scientists estimate that in Pakistan, the third largest population of the world, from 6,000 to 6,000 snow leopards in Pakistan.

To try and refund these disturbing trends, WWF – with the help of Pakistan’s LAHORE Labore management science (LUMS) – prepared cameras working by artificial intelligence (AI).

Their goal is to discover the existence of the Snow Leopard and warn the totals of the villagers to safety.

Cameras with a short, 3000 m (9,843ft) with a tall, installed solar panel, are placed high between the barren and firm mountains.

“Snow Leopard Territory”, “Says Igbal, which canned Pakistan from WWF. We are a few more steps and give us points for tracks on the ground:” These are pretty new. “

Asif hopes that the camera says a program of a program of a program that allows people to be distinguished between other animals and snow leopards.

WWF tests 10 cameras placed between three villages in Gilgit-Baltistan. It took three years to bring up the AI ​​model to detect these categories with effective – unless it is perfect – accuracy.

Once immediately after the mountain, the Asif draws the PC and shows me the dashboard. I am in a number of gifs. I find correctly I am a person. As we do not list, I read again, and this time I have both man and as an animal. I wear a thick white fleece, so I donate the program.

Then the Asif shows me the money. Snow leopard, a few nights ago, was noted at night. It takes another one week before before. It is a snow leopard that raises his tail against a nearby rock. “It seems like a mother’s leopard, noting the territory,” he says.

The construction of the cameras in rocky, highlands and made a lot of trials and mistakes. WWF has passed several types of batteries so that it can withstand harsh winter. A certain paint was chosen to avoid reflecting the light as the animals crossed.

If the cell service fails in the mountains, the device continues to record and capture local data. But the team simply had to take some problems they could not solve.

Although the camera lens is protected by a metal box, they had to replace the sun panels damaged by landslides.

This is not just a technology that has created a problem. It also difficulty getting the purchase of the local community. Some were suspected of some and suspect that the project was helping them or the snowmen.

“We saw some wires cut off,” said Asif. “People threw a quilt on the cameras.”

The team also had to emphasize the confidentiality of local cultures and women. The cameras had to be relocated because women walk very often.

Some villages are still signing agreements and confidentiality forms, which cannot be spread in its territory. WWF is a promise to prevent local farmers from going to the footage of poachers.

The citara lost its sheep in January. He says he took them to graze on the land on his house, but the Snow Leopard attacked them.

“It was a hard work for three to four years, which raised these animals and all ended in a day,” he says.

The loss of the livelihood has left the bedroom for several days. When asked if he was hopeful, he could help in the future, answered: “How can my phone get no service during the day, how can text help?”

At a meeting of the village elders, Khyber village leaders explain how relations between the relations changed during the years and the importance of the growing ratio of villages and the impact of snow leopards.

According to WWF, Snow Leopards hunt Ibex and blue sheep that helps excess these animals and help protect meadows.

But not all is sure. A local farmer asks the benefits of animals.

“We have been holding up from 40 to 50 sheep, now there are only four or five, and the cause is a threat from snow leopards and grass,” he says.

Climate change is a part of playing however threatens some of the snow leopards. The warm-up temperature of the scientists should transfer the villagers to the higher areas of the villagers and to dedicate snow leopards to their homes, and the more target of cattle.

The villagers say that WWF’s legal penalties of WWF are serving the US legal penalties as a strong barrier in recent years. Three people were arrested after killing a snow leopard in Hoper Valley in the Hoper Valley. One of them sent his photos with a dead animal on social media.

The participants in the camera project are hopeful, which AI devices can affect, they know that they cannot be the only solution.

In September, the snowfall, the sounds and lights, to discourage trials, voices and leers in the nearest villages, they try to move themselves and livestock in animal husbandry.

This “dreams of the mountains”, which followed their work, has not yet finished.