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A short field report from our project with Kowen Antami in Yanachaga Chemillén, Peru. 👇
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We partner with local communities in Latin America to implement Passive acoustic monitoring and AI-powered tools for conservation. We transform biodiversity and bioacoustic data into actionable insights using AI, geospatial analytics, and remote sensing.
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Fieldwork still matters in the age of AI.
A short field report from our project with Kowen Antami in Yanachaga Chemillén, Peru. 👇
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Making conservation tangible.
Dashboards matter, but clean focal recordings help conservation story telling to convey the beauty we’re trying to protect. Shifting baseline syndrome + extinction of experience are real, even for researchers.
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A recording without context is just a signal.
To move beyond presence/absence monitoring, observational metadata are essential. Ground-truthed notes on behavior and microhabitat turn a detection”into ecological information—and make PAM outputs far more interpretable and useful.
If it isn’t in the archive, it isn’t in the model.
Range-restricted endemics are underrepresented in public archives, so big models lack training examples—especially species with high song variation, like the Peruvian Slaty Brushfinch (Atlapetes taczanowskii).
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Fieldwork still matters in the age of AI.
A short field report from our project with Kowen Antami in Yanachaga Chemillén, Peru. 👇
Apart from Zoom F3, the Tascam FR-AV2 is very similar in many regards: size, pre-amps, price range.
01.02.2026 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If you plan on using external microphones, I wouldn't bother about onboard mics. The H1 XLR is a bit noisy. As mentioned before, the Zoom F3 has great pre-amps, way better than any of the ones pictured. The ergonomics are bit of a downside for active field recording, but you'll get used to it.
01.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics" recently published! http://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70218 #bioacoustics #machinelistening #deeplearning
05.01.2026 08:55 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1Best wishes for 2026! To start off the new year, here's a great new set of some 400 recordings by Fabrice Schmitt from the Sira mountain range in Peru. xeno-canto.org/explore?quer...
01.01.2026 16:50 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Eine blonde Frau (Julinae Diller) blickt in die Kamera. Dazu das Zitat: "Die Versuchung, mit dem Goldabbau Geld zu machen, ist sehr mächtig. Ein Hektar Land kostete bis vor wenigen Jahren umgerechnet zwischen 600 und 800 Euro. Heute zahlen die Goldgräber dafür 10.000 Euro oder mehr. So mancher wird da schwach."
Als Teenager überlebte sie als Einzige einen Flugzeugabsturz im peruanischen #Regenwald. Heute kämpft Juliane Diller gegen illegale Goldgräber – um das Lebenswerk ihrer Eltern zu retten.
@hilwiller.bsky.social hat sie getroffen: www.riffreporter.de/de/internati...