The world’s leading search engine website, Google is not only engaged is expanding its business, but the multinational corporation also has a history of making significant contributions to help save the natural world. Following in the same tradition, the American corporation announced on Tuesday that they had disbursed a grant of $5 million to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), so the organization could buy a flotilla of unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones to hunt down the rhino poachers in the African continent.
According to President and CEO of WWF, Carter Roberts, “We face an unprecedented poaching crisis. The killings are way up. We need solutions that are as sophisticated as the threats we face. This pushes the envelope in the fight against wildlife crime.”
The WWF is already using trackers to save rare species from any harm. Now with this $5 million dollars, the World Wildlife Fund organization will buy an undisclosed number of drones that will be lightweight so they can be launched immediately by hand. In addition to this, these drones can fly roughly 18 miles and during their journey they will track the ivory poachers in Africa.
Withthis $5 million dollar grant from Google, the WWF noted on their website that, “These innovative new tools will give rangers in protected areas and local communities a welcome advantage against the ruthless and deadly gangs of criminals targeting wildlife. The grant enables WWF to test advanced but easily-replicable technologies and create an overarching system to curb poaching—an important complement to the work WWF, partners and governments are already undertaking.”
Source: FastCompany, Forbes, Mashable
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