Can you see elephants on google earth

Google drove its Street View car along one of the main roads that cuts through the sq km park in February, collecting panoramic images of the spectacular reserve and the animals. As well as the elephants, Google captured images of a pride of lions , a leopard and zebra.

Writing in a post on the Google blog , he said that , elephants across Africa were killed for their ivory between , but that thanks to work in the Samburu national reserve their numbers are slowly increasing. Google has led you on a climb of Mount Everest and let you swim with the turtles in Great Barrier Reef. Now, Street View is offering you a chance to walk with elephants in Kenya.

Launched this week, the program, in partnership with Save the Elephants and with funding from Kenya's Samburu County Government, allows viewers to tag along as the elephants go about their day.

The goal of the project, Google says, is raising awareness of the growing problem of poaching to feed demands for ivory in Asia and other parts of the world. Save the Elephants also recognizes the threats posed by human-elephant interaction.

The group's migration tracking studies have led to the construction of a corridor and a highway underpass to give the elephants safe migration areas between Mt. The first day the corridor openend, the collared elephant Tony was spotted crossing underneath. Save the Elephants' goal is to secure a future for elephants and the habitats they live in, from Tony to the "Great Tuskers" such as Murembo, shown below.

Very few tuskers like Murembo remain in the wild due to the threats of poaching for ivory. Devastated by a decade of conflict, this wildlife sanctuary of nearly square kilometres was little more than a huge graveyard in when Pierre Pfeffer of the Paris Natural History Museum visited it and decided to campaign for its restoration. Today, this is recognised to have been a sensible decision. It is acknowledged that wildlife are better off when they have a reasonably large area in which to live, away from human activity.

Aerial counts made in , and confirm that animal numbers are on the increase in the park and that irreversible destruction has been averted. Currently, Zakouma is the only area effectively being protected in Chad.