Popular Posts

  • About Zeus
    There was twelve titans and the youngest of the titans, Cronos , ruled in his father's place.In time, Cronos had six children.The young...
  • The Rising Sun
    I often struggle with word choice . Out of all 10 of the places to go I would like to go to Temples at Bagan in Myanmar. I would love to ...
  • President of Ethiopia Haile Selassie
           Haile Selassie was a great person to all Ethiopians. He was born July 1892 in, Ejersa Goro, Ethiopia. He was a respected crowed emper...
  • Really!! Animal Poaching
    According to Logan's Article, Animal Poaching is a big problem in South Africa. That is why they are creating drones to protect the a...
  • Water Lily
    Found an interesting post made by Dayon  about the African water lily.One of the worlds rarest plants was stolen from the Kew gardens in Lon...

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Drones Doing More than Slave Away for the NSA?

At the Ol Pejeta wild animal reserve in South Africa they have taken a new step towards saving endangered rhinos, and other animals lives from poachers.  With money raised from a crowd funding source called Indiegogo they have raised enough money to buy a small light weight drone that can monitor the animals when and where the rangers can't.  The drone is equipped with a camera that can see in both day and night and in one run it can scan of over 50 miles in under 90 minutes.  The rangers hope that these new precautions will stop poaching before it can begin and ease the strain on their limited workforce.  So what do you think can drones make a difference in these animals lives, or is this just the next NSA scam?  Will has Swagger
Posted by at

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2014 at 7:42 PM

    It's really sad that so many people want to take these animals! There are lots of endangered animals on this reserve, like the White Rhino, and it's not right that people are willing to hurt them just to gain more money. I'm glad the communities want to do something about it. The drones seem like a great idea to me, not a scam at all! (I don't actually see how it even could be a scam...) This way, even with only 190 workers on this huge piece of land, the animals could be safe.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)