“Air Shepherd” : Drones Protecting Elephants and Rhinos

Good news about drones?!

I recently heard the end of an interview on the BBC with a speaker for the Lindbergh Foundation’s “Air Shepherd” program.  See link to their website below.

Scared of drones? Me too. But in this case you have drones performing a vital service in the campaign to protect African elephants and rhinos from poachers and other threats.

Apparently, the drones are so quiet they can perform reconnaissance at heights as low as 400 feet without poachers hearing them. Mostly done at night with infrared cameras of course, but that’s when many poachers are active anyway.

http://airshepherd.org/

– Mark