The Amazon is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth

The Amazon rainforest is the world's most important natural ecosystem. It represents half of the world's tropical forests and is home to more than 3 million species. It has the greatest diversity of plant species on the planet and the Amazon river system holds 20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water. It is also one of the last refuges for many endangered species such as the jaguar, the saki satan and the pink dolphin. The Amazon rainforest plays a key role in the planet's climate.

Jaguar is an emblematic species of the Amazon
The most ancient dolphin species in the world
3 million
Species inhabit the Amazon rainforest
1/3
Of all tropical trees that exist on Earth

Tropical forests are rapidly disappearing from our planet

Rainforests are disappearing because of deforestation from logging, mining, oil drilling, agriculture and expansion of urbanized areas. 50% of the world’s rainforests have been destroyed in a century. Scientific insights are lost before they can be revealed when countless more species are yet to be discovered.

With an area of 8 million km2, the Amazon rainforest surface is equivalent to 14 times France's territory
20%
Of Amazon rainforest already gone
1350 m2
of forest disappearing each second
Amazon is home to many mineral resources: gold, copper, tantalum, iron ore, nickel and manganese
In the last two decades the Amazon has lost the equivalent of Spain surface

Monitoring the sound of the whole Amazon rainforest to preserve its biodiversity

Listening to the sound of life, the only support of information that all living creatures share, animals and plants, aquatic or terrestrial, allows to assess the health status of nature. Project Providence revolutionizes the way biodiversity is monitored by installing under the canopy a wireless sensor network of autonomous acoustic observatories. Through a technology called Providence Nodes, which automatically capture, process and identify in real time any sound, both on land and underwater. The processed data is then sent over the internet and made available worldwide.

1000
Stations to be deployed in 2025 to cover the whole Amazon forest
1000+
Species acoustically and visually identified
10 km2
Covered by each Providence Node
Combining the data processed by Providence Nodes provides biodiversity indices
A non-invasive technology to protect ecosystems
Providence Nodes are powered by solar energy

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