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Search Drone Images of Bornean Rainforest for Orangutan Nests and Fig Trees
Learn moreYou will be shown an image from a tropical rainforest, taken by a drone. There may or may not be an orangutan nest or a fig tree in each one.
Scan each image slowly and look for brown spots in the forest canopy, and the bald spot structure of fig trees.
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We're trying to understand what kind of forest Orangutans will live in, and how they're impacted by a human land use. Help us make our estimates of Orangutan population density as accurate as possible by selecting only the Nests and Fig Trees you see.
Sol.MilneAbout Orangutan Nest Watch
We fly drones over an area of Forest in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo in order to find out how orangutans are affected by human impacts on their environment. Orangutans are Critically Endangered and it is vital to protect their remaining habitat. However we do not yet know at what population densities they live, so we need to search through each individual photo to see if we can find their nests and their vital food source- strangler fig trees. The more we know about the habitat orangutans can survive in, the more we can build to protect suitable areas of forest where they can live into the future, and reduce the threat of local extinction.
