A blind rhinoceros named Munu in South Africa is being protected by a novel thermal camera system meant to help deter poachers. This technology has promising applications for conservation projects worldwide.
on the property that use an algorithm to distinguish human and vehicle motion from other types of movement in video clips.
The use of thermal camera networks to deter poachers isn’t necessarily new. The World Wildlife Fund has been testing and deploying the technology with international conservation projects since 2015. Last year, the organization partnered with the Kenyan government to install FLIR cameras in 11 national parks, encompassing 80 percent of the country’s black rhino population, says Colby Loucks, head of the WWF’s Wildlife Crime Technology Project.
, mostly by poachers, including 12 in the Democratic Republic of Congo this past April. “What became apparent quite quickly is that this technology also protects rangers,” Loucks says. The technology allows park staff to see where the poachers are and what weapons they’re carrying and decide how to respond safely and strategically.
Thermal camera technology has other conservation purposes, too. In North America, FLIR’s gadgets are helping to countthat’s been notoriously difficult to quantify. The cameras can also be used to document the behavior of nocturnal carnivores without disturbing them with beams of light.
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