Between July 7 and 30, the Tumbira community, located in the Rio Negro Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS), will host the finalists of the XPRIZE Rainforest Tropical Forests, a five-year competition that aims to encourage teams to develop autonomous technologies for assessing biodiversity in order to improve understanding of tropical forest ecosystems.
In this final stage, teams must be able to survey 100 hectares of Amazon rainforest in 24 hours, and report important biodiversity data in real time within 48 hours.
The objective will be to demonstrate scalability and maximize performance both in surveying biodiversity and in producing solutions compatible with the challenges of a humid and dense tropical forest.
The surveys carried out will benefit Brazil and countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia that also have tropical forests.
Funded by the Alana Institute, the XPRIZE Rainforest will award winners with US$10 million.
The competition entered the final stretch after four years of work involving 300 groups of scientists from 70 countries.
In the first phase, held in Singapore in June 2022, six teams were selected, including a Brazilian one: the Brazillian Team, from Piracicaba (SP), which developed a technology involving drones, sensor arrays, ground robotics and drones with pruners designed to collect environmental DNA samples for evaluation.
In addition to the Brazilian team, there are teams from Switzerland, Spain and three from the United States.
Source: CNN Brasil
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