Sunday, January 27, 2013

Anti-poaching drones to take off in Africa


Conservationists seek out new technologies as illegal animal killings threaten endangered populations.

The discovery was gruesome. A family of 12 dead elephants rotting in the midday heat of south-eastern Kenya, their faces hacked apart by poachers as they removed the animals' ivory tusks.

The massacre this month in Tsavo East National Park highlighted a surge in poaching in Africa that has pushed conservationists to embrace new technologies in an effort to save threatened elephants and rhinos.

See full Article: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/01/2013117135422298209.html