Wildlife Insights
Wildlife Insights is a free cloud platform that uses AI to identify species in camera-trap imagery at scale, built by Conservation International with Google and a coalition of conservation organisations. Its SpeciesNet model was open-sourced by Google in 2025.
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Wildlife Insights ingests camera-trap imagery and runs AI species classification in the cloud, giving projects structured, georeferenced wildlife detections from large image volumes.
The underlying SpeciesNet model was open-sourced by Google on 3 March 2025 under Apache 2.0, and the platform offers a free cloud service with a documented public API. By 2026 it reported over 200 million camera-trap images from 90-plus countries.
Led by Conservation International with Google and partners including WWF, WCS and the Smithsonian, it is a non-profit coalition rather than a commercial vendor.
AI-assisted camera-trap species identification for biodiversity monitoring, a structured wildlife-detection feed that can run on an open model without vendor lock-in.
Recent developments
- Mar 2026Platform reported over 200 million camera-trap images from more than 90 countries.
- Mar 2025Google open-sourced the SpeciesNet wildlife-ID model under Apache 2.0.
Using Wildlife Insights in a project
The provider’s own site holds its current capabilities, access terms and documentation. Read them before selecting the tool or planning an integration.