A pioneering study led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with international partners has applied AI for the first time to count the Great Wildebeest Migration from satellite images. Unexpectedly, the results showed fewer than 600,000 individual wildebeest – less than half the previous estimate of 1.3 million animals. The results were published on 9 September in PNAS Nexus . Northward migration of wildebeest at a river crossing. Lead researcher Dr Isla Duporge ( Wildlife Conservation