How many elephants are there?

How many elephants are there?
Pooja M., Kathleen G., Vulcan Blog"With our project, “Modernizing Wildlife Surveys with Machine Learning” (MWS), we're working with Wild Me, a non-profit based in Portland, Oregon and colleagues in East Africa to develop a platform specifically trained on aerial imagery, the kind that is used to generate these population estimates. If all goes well, we'll be able to release the platform, open source, to allow for other organizations and entities to use it, or even add to it, by training it with their data - it could be a system that can derive population estimates for elephants and eventually other large game, like giraffe, in African savannas to polar bears in Arctic tundra."