Breaking the Species Divide: Data and Gorillas with Credit Cards
summary
Conservation groups report that reliable data and economics must tie together: the Living Planet Index shows a 69% decline, teams ingest camera‑trap, audio and satellite data onto Nvidia DXs and run a supervised learning model that extracts 500 interests for mountain gorillas; a parallel human expert track validates actions. A financial exercise prices ~400 gorillas at a $1.4 billion valuation, proving the pipeline from scraped literature → AI → deployable conservation payments.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Conservation data challenges
- 1:05Has conservation failed?
- 2:34Economic framework for nature
- 3:17ZSL biodiversity data
- 5:02Small vs big data in conservation
- 6:29Fairness in conservation data
- 7:54Health and conservation parallels
- 9:20Value from nature’s data
- 10:47Interspecies money and identity
- 13:16AI for gorilla conservation
- 15:52Gorilla financial valuation
- 17:17ZSL’s next decade vision
- 19:26AI to stop biodiversity loss
- 20:29Tools for investors now
- 21:12Urgent financial solutions
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