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Transforming biodiversity monitoring through cutting-edge technologies

Transforming biodiversity monitoring through cutting-edge technologies

The text below is part of a press release that has been published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. Biodiversity monitoring faces significant challenges across Europe, from the labour-intensive nature of traditional field surveys to the shortage of taxonomic expertise needed to identify species. The EU-funded project MAMBO (Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biodiversity) addresses these challenges through innovative ...

Testing innovative biodiversity monitoring technologies across Europe

Testing innovative biodiversity monitoring technologies across Europe

The text below is part of a press release that has been published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. Demonstration sites are central to achieving MAMBO's objectives, serving as the environments where the project's innovations are tested, validated, and showcased. The EU-funded project MAMBO (Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biodiversity) has established a network of 12 demonstration sites across six European countries, wh...

MAMBO holds a demonstration day in Malta

MAMBO holds a demonstration day in Malta

The MAMBO project successfully held a demonstration event titled “Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Measurable Biodiversity Impacts” on 8 April in Valletta, Malta. The event was organised by project partners at Ecostack Innovations and brought together participants to explore MAMBO's innovative tools and approaches for biodiversity monitoring. The session began with an introduction to the MAMBO project and a suite of five project-derive...

MAMBO demonstration day showcases biodiversity monitoring innovations at Bagnas

MAMBO demonstration day showcases biodiversity monitoring innovations at Bagnas

The MAMBO project recently held a demonstration day at the Bagnas site, bringing together participants to explore innovative biodiversity monitoring tools developed by the project. The event included presentations and on-site demonstrations of sensors and methods deployed at the Bagnas Natural Reserve, providing practical insights into their operation and potential applications. Find the videos of the demonstration day morning presentations...

Latest social media campaign focuses on MAMBO’s demonstration sites

Latest social media campaign focuses on MAMBO’s demonstration sites

MAMBO has concluded its latest social media campaign, dedicated to introducing the project's demonstration sites to a wider audience. Over the course of the campaign, a series of posts across MAMBO's social media channels offered an in-depth look at the project’s real-world settings - covering each demonstration site's role, the activities taking place on the ground, key outcomes, and the technologies being deployed. The demonstration sites ar...

Explore MAMBO's innovations: a new page available on the website

Explore MAMBO's innovations: a new page available on the website

A new Technologies page is now available on the MAMBO website. The page offers a comprehensive overview of the technologies developed throughout the project, providing stakeholders, researchers and interested parties with detailed and accessible information on MAMBO's key innovations. Visitors to the page can explore each technology in depth, with dedicated sections covering a description of the tool, the benefits of its use, and the intended ...

MAMBO featured across EU pollinator project newsletters

MAMBO featured across EU pollinator project newsletters

MAMBO’s policy brief, Integration of novel technology in pollinator monitoring, is being featured in the newsletters of four EU-funded pollinator projects - PollinERA, VALOR, Safeguard and AGRI4POL - highlighting its relevance across European research and policy initiatives focused on pollinator protection. The brief explores how emerging tools, including artificial intelligence and automated insect camera traps, can support large-scale and st...

GeoPl@ntNet, a web platform to explore biodiversity indicators at EU scale

GeoPl@ntNet, a web platform to explore biodiversity indicators at EU scale

GeoPl@ntNet is an interactive web platform that provides high-resolution, AI-generated maps of plant species distribution and biodiversity indicators across Europe. It makes Essential Biodiversity Variables accessible and easy to understand through intuitive maps, region selection, and detailed reports. Users can visualise species or habitat distributions at 50x50m resolution, select specific areas to explore local biodiversity, and generate r...

Pl@ntNet: AI powered plant identification for global biodiversity monitoring

Pl@ntNet: AI powered plant identification for global biodiversity monitoring

Pl@ntNet is a citizen science platform that uses AI to identify plant species and support large-scale biodiversity monitoring. Co-developed since 2009 by a consortium of research organisations, it now includes regionalised floras and the ability to process high-resolution vegetation images such as quadrats and imagery from sensors and drones. The platform offers four access points: Pl@ntNet for Android, Pl@ntNet for iOS, Pl@ntNet Web, and the ...

Recent social media campaign highlights MAMBO's work packages

Recent social media campaign highlights MAMBO's work packages

The MAMBO project has completed a social media campaign, running from 25 August to 27 October, to introduce its nine work packages and show how each contributes to advancing biodiversity monitoring across Europe. The campaign helped audiences understand how MAMBO’s coordinated efforts support more accurate, efficient, and scalable conservation tools. Discover all WPs here and take a look at the #MAMBOworkpackages campaign across our social med...

MAMBO present at a vegetation characterisation workshop

MAMBO present at a vegetation characterisation workshop

MAMBO project partners from INRIA and CIRAD, Alexis Joly and Pierre Bonnet, took part in a workshop by the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. The two-day event addressed vegetation characterisation at the European scale, with a focus on identifying tree species outside forests. The workshop followed discussions on image analysis of the Lucas dataset, in which participants tried to identify tree species using the tiling approach. It a...

AI model learns the “syntax” of nature to decode plant communities

AI model learns the “syntax” of nature to decode plant communities

A new collaborative study published in Nature Plants introduces an innovative artificial intelligence approach to understanding biodiversity. The paper, “Learning the syntax of plant assemblages”, presents Pl@ntBERT, a language-based AI model that learns the “syntax” of plant communities much like large language models learn the structure of human language. Pl@ntBERT was trained on extensive European vegetation data and can predict missing pla...

MAMBO partners active at the Living Data Conference 2025

MAMBO partners active at the Living Data Conference 2025

The first day of the Living Data Conference 2025 gathered a vibrant community of biodiversity data scientists, ecologists, and policy experts to discuss how to transform data into actionable knowledge for conservation and governance. MAMBO partners were engaged, contributing to discussions that spanned from global biodiversity data frameworks to innovative AI-based applications. A highlight of the day was the keynote talk by Alice Hughes (...