As Africa’s Elephant population dwindles, an ambitious project aims to count them all [VIDEO]

The Great Elephant census, an ambitious two-year initiative funded by an American philanthropist for $7 million, aims to count all of the elephants on the continent of Africa in order to save the species through conservation efforts.

But as elephant numbers continue dwindle across the continent, due in large part to poaching, researchers -- already faced with a herculean task and countries resistant to join the census -- must first establish how many they are trying to save.

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