The University of Bristol, the Mammal Society, Rainforest Connection and Huawei are collaborating to help save the endangered squirrel in the UK.
The project involves monitoring UK woodlands with red, with grey and with joint squirrel populations. The red and the grey squirrel don’t live together very happily.
It’s estimated that the red cohort has lost 60 percent of its range over the last 13 years. There are redoubts where red squirrels still have reasonable populations – the Wild Life Trusts believe there are 140,000 red squirrels and 2.5 million grey squirrels. But it believes that the red species may become extinct in 10 years.
The project will use artificial intelligence, bio-acoustic and cloud tech with Huawei software analysing sounds in the environment.
