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Daniela Hedwig

Feb 27, 2026

8:48
We ended up throwing out a lot of the data and only looked at the loudest gunshots in the recording.
8:55
Our problem is that we do have detection algorithms, and we can make them so that they find the gunshots, but that comes at a cost.
9:04
And that cost is that we're detecting thousands and thousands of other signals that are not gunshots.
9:11
That means that we need a person to actually look and listen to all the detections and make the final decision, and this is where acoustic monitoring and its potential really reaches a bottleneck.
Melissa Hobson
Melissa HobsonCORRESPONDENT
11:28
It's important to acknowledge that there are many social and economic issues that contribute to poaching.
11:33
It's a very complex problem, you know, where poaching needs to be tackled from multiple angles.
11:40
In this context, we often talk about poachers, and we paint them so negatively, but I would like to say that the vast majority of people that are going in a national park to hunt are just, you know, people that are trying to make ends meet.
11:56
We're talking about people here that often don't have much, and they are trying to feed their children.
8:43
We ended up throwing out a lot of the data and only looked at the loudest gunshots in the recording.
8:50
Our problem is that we do have detection algorithms, and we can make them so that they find the gunshots, but that comes at a cost, and that cost is that we're detecting thousands and thousands of other signals that are not gunshots.
9:06
That means that we need a person to actually look and listen to all the detections and make the final decision.
9:14
And this is where acoustic monitoring and its potential really reaches a bottleneck.
11:23
It's important to acknowledge that there are many social and economic issues that contribute to poaching.
11:28
It's a very complex problem, you know, where poaching needs to be tackled from multiple angles.
11:35
In this context, we often talk about poachers, and we paint them so negatively.
11:40
But I would like to say that the vast majority of people that are going in a national park to hunt are just, you know, people that are trying to make ends meet.

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