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How AI could save the UK’s endangered red squirrels (readwrite.com)

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The UK’s endangered red squirrel population could have an unlikely savior – an AI detection program.

Genysys Engine, an AI research company in Northern Ireland, has developed a program which identifies red and gray squirrels with 97 percent accuracy.

Red squirrels are native to the UK and have been there for thousands of years, whereas their gray counterparts were brought to the country from the US in the 19th century. Both species compete for the same resources and spread diseases, including squirrel pox, which is fatal for the reds but not grays, and so the red population has dramatically dropped.

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