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When Anika Puri visited India with her family four years ago, she was shocked to come across a market in Bombay filled with rows of ivory jewellery and statues.
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Globally, the ivory trade has been illegal for more than 30 years, and elephant hunting has been prohibited in India since the 1970s.
A wildlife lover, Puri wanted to do something to help protect the species and others still threatened by poaching.
A wildlife lover, Puri wanted to do something to help protect the species and others still threatened by poaching.
Over two years, Puri created ElSa (short for elephant saviour), a low-cost prototype of a machine-learning-driven software that analyzes movement patterns in thermal infrared videos of humans and elephants.
