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Satellite images for Elephant Survey
Recently, the researchers from the University of Oxford Wildlife Conservation Research Unit and Machine Learning Research Group have detected the elephants in South Africa using the Artificial Intelligence from space. This survey is being claimed as more accurate as compared to the detection by Human. For the purpose of survey, researchers used the highest resolution ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2021
Category: Environment Current Affairs • International Current Affairs
Topics: African elephant • Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Elephant Survey • Machine learning • Satellite images for Elephant Survey • South Africa
AI based Survey of African Elephants
An International Team of researchers led by University of Oxford have developed a new approach to survey African Elephants using satellite images and Artificial Intelligence. What is the new approach? The method uses satellite orbiting in space that is capable of capturing more than five thousand square kilometres of images. The captured images is then ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2021
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: African elephant • Appendix II of CITES • Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Asian elephant • CITES • Elephant Census • IUCN • Project Elephant
Cyanobacteria: Cause of death in 330 Botswana Elephants
More than 330 elephants died in Botswana. The first mass death of these elephants were reported in May 2020 when a group of 169 elephants were found dead. Later in July 2020, another 281 were reported to have died mysteriously. The authorities have found that Cyanobacteria is the cause of death in these 330 elephants. ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2020
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: African elephant • Botswana • cyanobacteria • Elephant • Great Elephant Census • IUCN • IUCN Red List
African Elephant Crisis
The African elephant population in Central African countries like Cameroon has fallen by more than 30% in the last 7 years. African Elephant The African elephant is a genus- consisting of 2 species: the African forest elephant and the African bush elephant. They are listed as vulnerable species by IUCN. African elephant species are found ..
Topics: Africa • African elephant • Cameroon • Dja Faunal Reserve
Botswana auctions elephant hunting licenses
The South African country Botswana has the largest elephant population in the world. Recently, the country was seen in news as it auctioned licenses to hunt elephants, to tackle human-animal conflict. In the capital city of the country Gaborone, the licenses to hunt 70 elephants were said to be auctioned. The government had lifted the ..
Topics: Africa • African elephant • Hunting