Endangered species are of grave concern on a global scale.
Due to supply and demand animal poachers around the world are killing off
species for luxury items including handbags, clothing and jewellery.
And while organisations including the World Wildlife
Foundation have gone to great lengths to prevent this from happening, it seems
as though the situation has now got to the point where aerial technology is
being appointed.
The WWF is one of many organisations that have reportedly
trialled drone technology to protect endangered rhinos throughout Africa and
Asia.
Counting and monitoring wild animals is an exhausting task
when relying on humans as animals can sometimes shy away, so experts need to
reportedly rely on paw prints, scat samples and camera traps to get an idea of
wildlife population, against the growing risk of poachers.
However, drones can gather far more accurate information
(data) on endangered species than Humans on the ground will ever be able to do.
Data provided by Robot Process Automation are reportedly on
average between 43% and 96% more accurate than the traditional.
In an Australian research article, the author Jarrod Hodgson:
‘We found it is more accurate and more precise to have people count birds from
the drone imagery than to do it on location.’
He added: “With so many animals across the world facing
extinction, our need for accurate wildlife data has never been greater,” the
scientist explains. “Accurate monitoring can detect small changes in animal
numbers. That is important because if we had to wait for a big shift in those
numbers to notice the decline, it might be too late to conserve a threatened
species,” he adds. “Our results show that monitoring animals with drones
produces better data that we can use to proactively manage wildlife."
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