BirdNET: Advancing Conservation with AI Powered Sound ID

BirdNET: Advancing Conservation with AI-Powered Sound ID Dr Stefan Kahl (Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Chemnitz University) ecoTECH Webinar 08 Jul 2025 How can we measure the impact of wildlife restoration, assess biodiversity loss, and evaluate the effectiveness of environmental policies? Passive bioacoustic monitoring offers a powerful solution, enabling continuous, large-scale coverage of ecosystems. To fully harness its potential, we need a scalable, robust software platform capable of handling vast audio datasets, detecting key biological sounds using AI, and extracting ecological insights such as species richness and assemblage trends. This presentation explores the challenges of biodiversity monitoring with passive audio recorders, the processing and analysis of large-scale acoustic data, and the technologies that make this approach viable and impactful. We’ll also showcase how the Wilder Sensing Platform is purpose-built to meet these demands—providing researchers, conservationists, and policymakers with an intuitive, scalable, and efficient tool for biodiversity monitoring and ecological surveys. Check out the speaker Q&A and useful links for this presentation in the full blog article: https://biologicalrecording.co.uk/202... Contact Wilder Sensing: https://wildersensing.com/contact/ Check out the Wildlife Acoustics website: https://www.wildlifeacoustics.com/ Check out the NHBS website for field guides, survey equipment, sound recorders and more: https://www.nhbs.com/ More events from the Biological Recording Company: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-bi...