In cool news: satellites are being used to count elephants from space.
The elephants are being tracked from space by Maxar - a technologies company - and Oxford University. Elephants are being tracked from space to give scientists a better understanding of these beautiful animals.
By monitoring the elephants from space, the scientists can gain a greater understanding of elephants, their numbers and how to save them.
Monitoring the elephants from space can help scientists save elephants. They can do this by knowing where the elephants are and how many elephants there are.
By gaining a better understanding of the amount of elephants there are in the wild, and, by gaining a better understanding of the challenges and threats that elephants face in the wild, it can help scientists protect the elephants.
It's good that we have scientists looking out for elephants and having the technology to save and protect these beautiful animals.
This new technology that scientists are using to monitor elephants is great news for elephants, as these beautiful animals face several threats in the wild.
Poaching is one of the two biggest threats that elephants face today. Sadly, elephants are poached for their ivory from their tusks. It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of elephants which are killed every year for their tusks.
Habitat loss is also another big threat to the existence of elephants today.
There are two different types of elephants found in the wild today: the African elephant and the Asian elephant. The African elephant is bigger than their Asian cousin. The African elephant is vulnerable to extinction today, with an estimated population of 415,000 thousand African elephants in the wild today.
Asian elephants, on the other hand, are an endangered species today and are at much more of risk of extinction than their African cousins. It is estimated that there are fewer than 50,000 Asian elephants in the wild today, making the Asian elephant extremely vulnerable to extinction.
With this new technology of monitoring elephants from space, hopefully, scientists will be able to protect these beautiful animals and save them for future generations.
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