Wildlife: WildEyes™ AI: Helping to Save Wild Elephants and Prevent Human-Elephant Conflict

Aug 12, 2020 | RESOLVE
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On World Elephant Day 2020, the NGO RESOLVE and the AI software company CVEDIA announce a novel solution to reduce harm to wild elephants and the humans who live near them. Over the past two decades, Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) has become a major cause of population declines of these iconic mammals in Asia and Africa. Crop raiding by elephants threatens community livelihoods, food security, and human fatalities, often prompting retaliatory killings of endangered elephants. This conflict stresses the most marginalized rural communities, for example, causing over $10 million in crop and property damage annually in Sri Lanka and $600,000 worth of crop damage in Tanzania in 2019.