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NASA Is Helping Protect Tigers, Jaguars, and Elephants. Here’s How.


As human populations grow, habitat loss threatens many creatures. Mapping wildlife habitat using satellites is a rapidly expanding area of ecology, and NASA satellites play a crucial role in these efforts. Tigers, jaguars, and elephants are a few of the vulnerable animals whose habitats NASA is helping track from space. “Satellites observe vast areas of […]

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