Rainforest Connection
Rainforest Connection (RFCx) deploys networked acoustic sensors and runs the Arbimon platform to detect species by sound and to flag threats such as chainsaws and gunshots in near real time, a bioacoustic monitoring layer directly aligned with monitoring nature.
Rainforest ConnectionInside Rainforest Connection
RFCx runs networked acoustic sensors paired with the Arbimon cloud platform, which applies AI to identify species from audio and to detect threat sounds such as chainsaws and gunshots for near-real-time alerting.
Arbimon offers an open-source Python SDK for programmatic access, though data access itself is scoped to account tiers. As a non-profit it is grant and corporate-partnership funded rather than equity-backed.
Bioacoustic monitoring is a frontrunner method for biodiversity-credit evidence, making RFCx a strong fit on the biodiversity axis.
Acoustic biodiversity monitoring and live threat detection for forest and restoration projects, a continuous species-and-disturbance evidence stream for biodiversity claims.
Recent developments
- 2025Reported acoustic monitoring across 726,000-plus hectares in 137 countries.
- 2023Launched an unsupervised acoustic-event-detection analysis pipeline in Arbimon.
Using Rainforest Connection in a project
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