2019 Rolex Awards Associate Laureate Documentary: Topher White

American technologist Topher White is helping to save the world’s dwindling rainforests from illegal logging through a real-time warning system, using repurposed smartphones as “intelligent ears”. Equipped with solar rechargers, the phones listen to all the sounds of the forest. Through artificial intelligence, White’s NGO Rainforest Connection, can pick out chainsaws, logging trucks and road building, and alert forest managers and indigenous communities in time to intervene. The phones also enable scientists to monitor the sounds of birds and animals, creating a vast digital library of raw acoustic data to aid conservation. Discover more https://on.rolex.org/TopherWhite
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