MP Sethrida Geagea announced at a press conference that the Cedar International Festival’s governing body kicked off an initiative called “Smart Forest” to protect Lebanon’s biodiversity and natural landscape. The project, created and funded by Lebanese tech company Eurisko Mobility and its founders Edgard Tawk and Ziad Tawk, will help early detection and prevention of fire outbreaks as well as monitor and map sites all over the Lebanese territory through AI, machine learning, and IoT devices. Each site costs $100,000, Geagea said. As a first step, the new project will be implemented in seven sites: