The data presented above was incorrect. The elephant population declined from 8,700 in the 1970 to a minimum of 1631, which refers to the national elephant population, not specifically to the Babile Elephant Sanctuary. The accurate data for the Babile Elephant Sanctuary indicates that when the sanctuary was established in the 1970s, it was estimated at approximately 600 individuals. Currently, this number has declined to an estimated minimum of about 210 elephants.

I sincerely regret this mistake and appreciate your understanding.

As a Master’s student in computer networking and security, I am dedicating my thesis to a practical, technology-driven solution for the Babile Elephant Sanctuary. Historically, the sanctuary has relied on traditional law enforcement methods; the elephant population declined from 8700 in the 1970s to a critical minimum range of 1,631. To mitigate this decline, I reviewed some research articles and got a lesson we should use a technology to monitor wildlife and human activity in the protected areas using  GPS collar,  motion/sound sensors, drones, camera traps applied on perception layer to collect a data from the environment and send to the integrated getaways, like LoRaWAN, 4G/5G, and Satellite links on Network layers, using those getaways the field data will be sent in to actionable intelligence for real time monitoring and protection on the processing and application layers.