A team of robotics researchers have found a way to save the environment by dispatching drones into tree holes – yes, tree holes. In a paper presented last week at the 2016 IEEE/RSJ Internati... Read more
Poachers in Tanzania’s Tarangire National Park will face a new foe after the African nation’s park service announced a new drone patrol this past month. Tanzania’s Ministry of Tourism approv... Read more
(Source thedodo.com) Wild orcas are getting a lot more exposure these days, thanks to the use of drone technology that captured some pretty spectacular footage of them. One such video was ta... Read more
Ecologist Lian Pin Koh is pioneering the use of drones in conservation efforts and biological research across the globe. His organization, ConservationDrones.org, was founded two years ago a... Read more
from biofreshblog.com Developments in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology are providing new, potentially cost-effective opportunities for ecologists and conservationists to monitor and... Read more
from blog.droneadventures.org There is much talk on how to use drone mapping technology for nature conservation. However, projects with applicable results for both conservation land use mana... Read more
The recent release of drone video footage by Sekol, a Southern Australian fishing organization, has provided the latest entry in the conversation about the potential role of drones in the fi... Read more
from New York Times Belize has made a great effort to protect its coral reef system — the largest in the Western Hemisphere — by establishing more than a dozen protected areas. But patrollin... Read more
from southernfriedscience.com Over the last few months, I’ve been digging into the confusing tangle of laws that protect marine mammals and regulate the use of drones–small, semi-autonomous... Read more
On Tuesday, June 17, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society unveiled its plan, called Operation GrindStop 2014, to curb the routine hunting of pilot whales in the Danish Faroe Islands by utilizin... Read more
from audubonmagazine.org UAVs are poised to revolutionize ecology and even save scientists’ lives. James Junda stared down at the broken corpse of his drone. Just moments before, his f... Read more