Melissa Hobson
Freelance wildlife writer and reporter for this episode who investigates the AI gunshot-detection project, conducts interviews, and narrates the feature story.
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Feb 27, 2026 • 22min
A teen, an algorithm and the race to stop poaching
Richard Headley, a statistical ecologist studying acoustic monitoring. Naveen Dar, a high‑school coder who built a lightweight neural gunshot detector. Melissa Hobson, a wildlife writer who investigates the project. They discuss acoustic vs camera monitoring, the messy challenge of false positives in forests, building compact neural nets that generalize across habitats, and the promise and limits of real‑time alerts for anti‑poaching.
