Elephants counted from space for conservation

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Satellite imagery is being used to count elephants in a breakthrough that could aid conservation.

The scientists looked first at South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park.

"It has a high density of elephants," University of Oxford conservation scientist Dr Isla Duporge said."While this is a proof of concept, it's ready to go. "And conservation organisations are already interested in using this to replace surveys using aircraft."But this approach could vastly improve the monitoring of threatened elephant populations in habitats that span international borders, where it can be difficult to obtain permission for aircraft surveys.

 

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Quite a mammoth tusk.

Yes yes we killed all we can locate from earth and now trying to locate the reminder left from space and kill them quickly so that human race have one giant beast gone to compete with

What did they count?

Next try get some armed drones up to protect them from poachers.

Very important to count those alien elephants.

And this is what I pay my license fee for 😡

Taking social distancing a bit too far...

First I herd of it.

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