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AI-powered monitoring is driving bird protection and population increases in the Yellow River Delta

As a national-level protected animal, the Oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana) is classified as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. With a population in decline due to habitat loss and the degradation of its wintering areas, stopovers, and breeding sites, the remaining population of these distinctive white birds totals just 10,000 across East Asia.

At the northern end of the Bohai Bay in China's Shandong Province, however, the world's first international wetland city has created a new habitat paradise for this endangered species.