Suspected members of an armed militia ambushed and killed five park rangers and a driver in Virunga National Park.
Category: Poaching
Stories covering the broad spectrum of poaching: from the sophisticated ivory trade to sustenance poaching.
Dr Jane Goodall’s Message on World Ranger Day 2017
We salute the people who go to work every day and put their lives on the line to protect our wilderness and wildlife and to provide for their families.
Niassa Wilderness
Niassa National Reserve is one of the last true epic wild areas left in the world. It’s a vast and diverse wilderness, located in the Northern most part of Mozambique against the Rovuma River. Niassa is the perfect example of a true African wilderness that is under increasing threat of losing it’s lion and elephant populations to poaching, and urgently needs interventions, in the form of community based projects, to turn the tide on poaching. Our mission at Custodians is to ensure that high biodiversity areas, such as Niassa, are preserved. Niassa Wilderness is a private nonprofit trust, focussed on fighting illegal poaching to ensure the sustained preservation of the Niassa Reserve.
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Watch Wildlife Rangers Nab Poachers With Thermal Imaging
As Custodians strives towards our mission of preserving Africa’s wilderness and biodiversity, it is unsurprising that the topic of illegal poaching will feature regularly. Whether it is highly organised crime syndicates involved in smuggling and trading ivory or subsistence meat poaching, we need to find solutions that ensure communities understand the value of preserving the populations of Africa’s unique fauna and flora.
FLIR is working with World Wildlife Fund’s Wildlife Crime Technology Project to put an end to illegal poaching in Africa.
It’s a crime that’s difficult to track and even harder to stop. By combining thermal imaging technology with cutting-edge software, FLIR and the Wildlife Crime Technology Project hope to reduce this rampant poaching problem.
Further reading:
Read more about the project on FLIR’s (infrared camera manufacturer) site.
Read and listen to the NPR coverage of the project.
Read more about the WWF’s involvement in the project (and here).
Read more about the recent grant from Google to support the use of technology to fight poaching.
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