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Elephants lick sand on the Chobe river in Kasane, Botswana, on July 20, 2022. Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area launched a more than $3 million dollar exercise that employs Artificial Intelligence technology to provide data to help ascertain the numbers of elephants, animal corridors and human settlements around the conservation areas in its member states. Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area is the biggest at 520 000 square kilometres and carries an estimated 250 000 elephants despite fluctuations between the porous borders of each neighbouring state. More than two million people who live alongside the animals have seen an increase in Human-Wildlife conflict which is attributed to an upsurge in elephant numbers, climate change and human development. (Photo by Zinyange Auntony / AFP) (Photo by ZINYANGE AUNTONY/AFP via Getty Images)