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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
‘National portal of Project Elephant’ launched
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has launched National Portal on Human-Elephant conflict situation so that it can resolve the dispute the human and the elephant. The portal is aimed at collecting information on a regular basis in order to manage the conflicts between humans and elephants. Details of the Portal The ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: National Portal • Project Elephant • World Elephant Day
Gaj Yatra Rolled Out from Meghalaya
In the North-East, the Gaj Yatra has been rolled out by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) from Tura, the principal town of Garo Hills of Meghalaya on May 28, 2018. It is the part of an 18-month-long national campaign to protect India’s national ..
Topics: Elephant • Environmental conservation • Mammals • Meghalaya • Natural environment • Project Elephant • Wildlife Trust of India • World Elephant Day