African elephant Current Affairs, GK & News
African elephants, the largest land animals on Earth, comprises of two species – Savanna elephants and forest elephants. While Savanna elephants are larger animals living in Sub-Saharan Africa, the forest elephants are comparatively smaller animals living in the Central and West African forests. Poaching and habitat loss led to Savanna elephants and forest elephants to be categorised under ‘endangered’ and ‘critically endangered’ respectively by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on March 25 this year.
New Assessment by IUCN on African elephants
The Red List by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently showed that, African elephants living in forests and savannas are increasingly threatened with extinction. Following which, conservationists have called for an urgent end to poaching. Highlights New assessments by IUCN underscore the persistent pressures that two species of elephants in Africa faces due ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2021
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: African elephant • Habitat loss • International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) • IUCN Red List • Savanna Elephants
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