Rainforest Connection
Non-profit OrganizationsCalifornia, United States11-50 Employees
Rainforest Connection (RFCx) is a nonprofit organization that leverages acoustic data to support conservation efforts. It emphasizes that soundscapes capture activity across insects, birds, mammals, and other organisms, while also reflecting threats such as illegal logging, poaching, and mining, providing a comprehensive view of ecosystems. The organization has built a platform that combines biodiversity analysis with threat-detection capabilities and a hardware suite to facilitate data collection, enabling global partners, governments, researchers, and ecologists to understand ecological impacts and inform conservation decisions. By supporting data sharing, external file uploads, rapid learning, and collaborative workflows, the platform aims to reduce manual annotation and make ecoacoustics scalable for conservation management.