Audubon Receives $2 Million from Bezos Earth Fund to Harness AI for Bird Conservation in Latin America

(New York–October 23, 2025) The Nationwide Audubon Society has been chosen as one in all fifteen international organizations awarded funding via the Bezos Earth Fund’s AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge, receiving $2 million to develop synthetic intelligence options that deal with the world’s most urgent environmental challenges—from habitat loss to local weather change.

Audubon will use the award to deepen and lengthen its work combining community-based conservation with AI instruments that establish birds by their songs. The undertaking equips native companions with autonomous recording models (ARUs)—small units that constantly report the pure soundscape, capturing hen songs and different wildlife calls. These recordings are analyzed utilizing synthetic intelligence in a course of generally known as passive acoustic monitoring (PAM), which helps observe species’ presence and abundance tendencies over time.

By listening to nature on this manner, Audubon and its companions will collect very important details about how wildlife is responding to local weather and habitat adjustments—serving to communities higher handle their lands and strengthen conservation throughout the Tropical Andes.

“We’re deeply grateful to the Bezos Earth Fund for this funding, which permits us to convey the ability of AI to Audubon’s strategic strategy—working alongside communities throughout the Western Hemisphere to guard birds and the locations they want,” stated Dr. Elizabeth Grey, CEO of the Nationwide Audubon Society. “By linking superior expertise with the deep group partnerships and science that outline Audubon’s work, we will remodel how conservation occurs throughout the Americas so it’s sooner, smarter, and constructed to final.”

“This award allows Audubon and our companions to place superior AI instruments straight within the palms of the individuals managing a number of the world’s most essential ecosystems,” stated Dr. Chad Wilsey, Chief Scientist on the Nationwide Audubon Society. “By combining cutting-edge expertise with group management, we will higher perceive biodiversity tendencies, strengthen native conservation capability, and assist make sure the well being of ecosystems essential to each individuals and wildlife.”

The undertaking is being carried out via Conserva Aves, a collaborative initiative led by Audubon, American Chicken Conservancy, BirdLife Worldwide, Birds Canada, and the Latin American and Caribbean Community of Environmental Funds (RedLAC). Conserva Aves goals to guard over two million hectares of hen habitat throughout Latin America by 2028, with 70 reserves already underway in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.

The brand new AI-powered community will enable these communities to detect elusive species, measure conservation progress and discover new methods to finance safety efforts—akin to bird-based ecotourism or biodiversity credit. The undertaking additionally continues Audubon’s 125-year custom of group science, from the Christmas Chicken Depend to trendy digital monitoring.

“These tasks present how AI, when developed responsibly and guided by science and native information, can strengthen environmental motion and guarantee its general impression on the planet is optimistic,” stated Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki, Director of AI and Information Methods on the Bezos Earth Fund.

Launched in 2024, the Bezos Earth Fund’s AI for Local weather and Nature Grand Problem is a $100 million initiative to harness the ability of synthetic intelligence to sort out the twin crises of local weather change and biodiversity loss. This system connects innovators with assets and mentorship from main expertise companions together with Amazon Internet Providers, Google.org, Microsoft Analysis, NVIDIA, the Allen Institute for AI, and Esri.

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Media Contact: Jason Howe, jason.howe@audubon.org

Concerning the Nationwide Audubon Society

The Nationwide Audubon Society is a number one nonprofit conservation group with 120 years of science-based, community-driven impression, devoted to defending birds and the locations they want, at this time and tomorrow. Birds are highly effective indicators of our planet’s well being, performing as sentinels that warn us of environmental change and encourage motion. Audubon works throughout the Western Hemisphere, pushed by the understanding that what is sweet for birds is sweet for the planet. By way of a collaborative, bipartisan strategy throughout habitats, borders, and the political spectrum, Audubon drives significant and lasting conservation outcomes. With 800 employees and over 1.9 million supporters, Audubon is a dynamic and ever-growing power dedicated to making sure a greater planet for each birds and other people for generations to come back. Study extra at www.audubon.org and on Fb, Twitter, and Instagram @audubonsociety.