Wildbook: Finding Elephants in the Data (and Whale sharks, Turtles and More, Too!)
J.A. Ginsburg, Medium"A vast and exponentially-expanding wildlife database has been created from hundreds of thousands of photographs and videos submitted by citizen-scientists, along with those captured by in-the-field camera-traps, and also scraped from websites such as YouTube and Flickr."

How Microsoft is using AI to help the Earth (Practical AI #29)
Chris Benson, Practical AI (podcast)"Wildbook has an intelligent agent that wakes up every night at 10 PM and it searches the internet, and it looks on the social media sites, and then it will find instances of people – using just natural language processing, or just regular search, you can find people who are posting about whale sharks, and then they’re extracting frames from those videos, and then running their object detector to find the whale shark in the object, and then classifying those things and recognizing that individual animal. So they’re finding both new whale sharks that way, that researchers haven’t been exposed to before."