July 17, 2024 This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlightedthe following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: fact-checked preprint trusted source proofread by Marylee Williams, Carnegie Mellon University Activists on the front lines of wildlife conservation routinely monitor news articles for information about infrastructure projects that could threaten at-risk animals. But that monitoring required more staff time than organizations on the ground could spare.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University helped ease this burden by working with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for Nature to develop a tool that monitors and identifies media articles related to environmental conservation . Once a week, WWF India needed two full-time workers to monitor news and identify issues related to wildlife conservation, said Fei Fang, an associate professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D) at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. CMU researchers worked with the WWF to develop media-monitoring tools that allow staff to spend less time analyzing news about infrastructure and environmental conservation and more time advocating for and protecting wildlife.
The tools have been expanded to include media monitoring in low-resourced languages like Hindi and Nepali to gather news from communities where wildlife is especially at risk. "We are trying to identify the news articles rele.