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Infineon & Rainforest Connection to protect vulnerable regions

Infineon Technologies is extending its collaboration with the NGO Rainforest Connection . The partners pursue the common goal of monitoring

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Rainforest Connection (RFCx) creates acoustic monitoring systems for those who wish to end illegal deforestation in real-time

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Rainforest Connection (RFCx) creates acoustic monitoring systems for those who wish to end illegal deforestation in real-time.

PREVENT ILLEGAL DEFORESTATION

Illegal deforestation is a gateway activity to clearing rainforest, one of the primary causes of climate change. According to the UN up to 90% of logging in tropical rainforests is illegal.

The reason we start with a focus on stopping illegal logging is because, in case after case, we have seen first hand that if you can protect the trees, you end up protecting everything else.

The RFCx monitoring system gives our partners the opportunity to protect key rainforest areas and respond to real-time alerts, while sharing large amounts of ecosystem data that help negotiate increased protections in these areas. In some cases, protecting the perimeter of a rainforest can actually mean protecting everything behind it.

STOP ANIMAL POACHING

Our goal at Rainforest Connection is to make sure poachers no longer have free reign over the world’s rainforests. To that end, we use the RFCx system to help our partners recognize patterns of activity related to poaching, including alerts for trucks, cars and motorcycles being used by poachers in key protected areas.

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Old cell phones, solar panels, TensorFlow ML, Rainforest Connection and the Tembé are keeping illegal logging out and protecting the life, culture and heritage of people who have lived there for centuries.

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Rainforest Connection Upcycles old Smartphones into Guardians of the Rainforest

According to the United Nations, deforestation is the second largest contributor to climate change, and up to 90% of that rainforest logging is done illegally. Rainforest Connection is a big project that uses an incredibly simple tool to respond to this illegal logging and help slow climate change and the mass extinctions that follow.

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Genius start up needs your old phone to help save Africa's rainforests and wildlife

A team of entrepreneurs wants to set up a network of the gadgets — assembled from discarded smartphones — in equatorial Africa, where they would help defend a chunk of 500,000-acre forest home to endangered elephants, lowland gorillas and chimpanzees.

How it works: By capturing the sounds emitted around it, the flower-like devices tell monitors what's going on deep inside the forest. When they pick up the distinctive sound of a chainsaw, they triangulate the location of the noise and send a text to forest managers, who arrive at the scene.

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