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Using AI and Big Data to Reduce Global Illegal Trade in Plants

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data technology provides a new approach to reducing illegal trade in plants. Automated intelligent perception, combined with new control processes and improved transparency in identification and monitoring, can improve the capacity and efficiency of oversight and intervention in the illegal trade and help with plant conservation.Plant conservation; Illegal cross-border trade; Automated intelligent perception; Identification; Monitoring

Source: Biological Diversity

DOI: 10.1002/bod2.70008

Authors: Hai Ren, Yifu Wang, Stephen Blackmore

Institutions: Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Botanical Garden, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Language: English

Topic: Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses

Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Life on land, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province