United States (San Francisco)
The sounds of the rainforest include: the chirps of birds, the buzz of cicadas, the banter of gibbons. But in the background is the almost-always present sound of a chainsaw, from illegal loggers.
Topher White founded the nonprofit Rainforest Connection with the intent of creating a low-cost monitor that could help remote communities in their efforts to halt illegal logging. Brutal deforestation is an enormous threat to tropical habitats. Now your old phone can be a guardian of the rainforest.
AtlasActions
► Donate your old phone and listen to the rainforest.
► Listen: The Outsider podcast ‘What AI hears in the forest’
► Watch: Topher White TED Talk
► Read: National Geographic ‘Your Old Cell Phone Can Help Save the Rain Forest’
Project leader
Topher White
