BOGOTÁ, Colombia: Yearly, airports in Costa Rica confiscate an average of six tons of seashells taken by tourists, causing significant damage to its coastlines.This AI tool, which the country provides to the scientific community, can be trained to properly classify species worldwide and thus return them to their ecosystems of origin.BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ –The seemingly harmless practice of collecting seashells as souvenirs is triggering an alarming environmental crisis. Research from the University of Florida and Barcelona found that this extraction degrades coastal ecosystems, endangers biodiversity, alters sediment stability, and weakens the ability of coastlines to withstand the effects of climate change.