Biodiversity: Artificial intelligence at the service of safeguarding plant heritage

Tunisia has about 2;700 plant species. However, data on these plants is scarce and difficult to access for the general public. With this in mind, a project to digitise the herbarium of the National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia (INAT) was launched in April 2019. It is a project financed by the Global Environment Facility’s Microfinance Programme (GEF/MFP) and is part of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It is implemented in the framework of a collaboration between the sustainable development association “Research in Action (REACT)”, Tunisia Ecotourism Network (TEN), the…