Drones and AI Help Monitor More Than a Million Trees

Farmers for Forests helps farmers plant trees and helps communities protect forests.

It pays farmers so caring for nature can also provide income.

Farmers receive saplings, irrigation systems and organic fertiliser materials.

Drones take many pictures of the land and trees from different angles.

Artificial intelligence studies these pictures much faster than people could.

It can count trees, measure their height and find unhealthy trees or invasive plants.

The organisation also uses drones to locate forest fires and guide patrol teams.

Its work includes forests and farms in several Indian states.

The group says technology is necessary because it now monitors more than one million trees.