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Google Street View)</figcaption></figure> <p>For once, Google was unlikely to face privacy complaints as the US Internet giant on Tuesday launched its Street View service in Kenya’s Samburu park, in a move conservationists said could help protect endangered elephants.</p> <p>Special cameras have taken panoramic images of the reserve while driving down dusty tracks – and have also been fixed to a backpack to penetrate deep into the bush.</p> <p>Some of Google’s previous Street View forays have brought complaints on privacy grounds.</p> <p>But this time there were no demands to blur out faces  – the main residents of the 165 square kilometre reserve are 900 elephants.</p> <p>The idea is to allow viewers <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180121205722/http://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/samburu-kenya/" target="_blank">to click and view the elephant herds close up</a>.</p> <p>“We hope that by bringing Street View to Samburu, we will inspire people around the world to gain a deeper appreciation for elephants,” said Farzana Khubchandani of Google Kenya.</p> <p>Slightly larger than a basketball, Google’s camera contains 15 individual fixed-focus lenses that simultaneously capture a 360 degree image roughly every three metres.</p> <p>The Kenya project was launched in collaboration with conservation group Save the Elephants.</p> <p>“It’s exciting to open a window onto Samburu, and to help us better protect its elephants,” said Save the Elephants chief Iain Douglas-Hamilton, speaking in Samburu, some 300 kilometres north of the Kenyan capital <a title="See the tag: nairobi (4 posts)" class="autobesttag" rel="nofollow" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180121205722/http://voicesofafrica.co.za/tag/nairobi/">Nairobi</a>.</p> <p>Kenya is struggling to stem poaching to protect its remaining elephant population – currently estimated at 30 000 – and just over a thousand rhinos.</p> <p>With ivory raking in thousands of dollars a kilo in Asia, conservationists have warned that African elephants could be extinct in the wild within a generation.</p> <p>“Giving people <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180121205722/http://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/samburu-kenya/" target="_blank">a virtual tour</a> will bring Samburu to the world, and inspire the world to come to Samburu,” county governor Moses Lenolkulal said.</p> <p>“The more people experience our <a title="See the tag: culture (18 posts)" class="autobesttag" rel="nofollow" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180121205722/http://voicesofafrica.co.za/tag/culture/">culture</a>, our people and the majestic elephants and other wildlife with which we co-exist, the more we are able to conserve and sustain the Samburu culture and its fragile ecosystem for generations to come.”</p>  </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-author"> <div class="entry-author-avatar"> <a class="vcard" 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