A leopard has been spotted for the first time in a section of a nature reserve in southwest China's Yunnan Province, suggesting that the elusive species has expanded its territory within the reserve.
While reviewing footage caught by the infrared cameras, staff at Nangunhe National Nature Reserve recently found images filmed in January showing a leopard with strong physique .
The leopard wanders with composure, while sometimes pausing to observe its surroundings.
Leopards in the reserve have been gradually expanding their movement range over several years. In 2019, footage showed three leopards traveling as a group in the reserve's Gengma area, where the they had not previously been known to visit.
The Nangunhe Reserve protects pristine tropical rainforests that serve as hotspot for biodiversity along China's border with Myanmar.
Elusive leopard captured on camera in southwest China reserve
The newly-established World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) marks a major milestone in AI development and a significant step toward global AI governance, international delegates said on Friday.
Twenty-nine countries on Thursday signed an agreement in Shanghai on establishing WAICO, an independent intergovernmental international organization headquartered in Shanghai.
The organization aims to promote international cooperation and global governance on AI, ensuring that AI is beneficial, safe and fair, thereby promoting its healthy and orderly development to benefit all humanity.
"I think this organization reinforces the need for multilateral cooperation. So you have 29 countries that have come together. I think yesterday's developments underline the importance of the capacity-building that countries around the world are facing an AI divide. There are some countries that do not have the talent, the datasets, the computer infrastructure, the access to the right models, and therefore efforts such as these can help bridge the AI divide," said UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies Amandeep Singh Gill.
Alaa Abdulaal, chief of Digital Economy Intelligence at the Digital Cooperation Organization, also hailed the launch, saying that cooperation is vital to ensure that no country is structurally excluded from the evolving digital landscape.
"Any initiative that is targeted for opening dialogues and innovation and conversation between countries to make sure that everyone is participating in the digital economy is a huge milestone. Whenever we have cooperation, whenever we have different countries, different representation, making sure that no one is left outside AI, it is a huge achievement, definitely," said Abdulaal.
World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization marks milestone in AI development: int'l delegates
