In May this year, somebody deliberately set the Slieve Beagh peatland in Northern Ireland on fire – triggering a local trust to trust drone technology with catching the next person…

A wildlife conservation non-profit organisation is seeking to raise enough money to launch and sustain drone-based efforts to serve the white rhinoceros species at a South African nature reserve. Established…

A researcher with the University of Canterbury (UC) in Christchurch, New Zealand is looking to break new ground with drone-based remote sensing research that could help reduce economic and environmental…

Just an annual reminder to tourists and anybody visiting a national park in South Africa that – while the authorities really appreciate your company – parks authorities are not happy…

Researchers at the University of São Paulo’s São Carlos Engineering School (EESC-USP) are developing drones equipped with gas sensors and artificial intelligence to help detect forest fires. Fire prevention and…

Researchers at the Archbold Biological Station (ABS) have adopted drone technology to help them with their ecological research operations at the station. Covering about 5,192.63 acres (21 km2) ABS is…

South African inventor Robert Miller’s quest for the perfect wildlife conservation drone has led to the making of BushRanger 2M V1, a cutting-edge fixed-wing VTOL surveillance aircraft engineered specifically for…

A drone recently caught a huge pride of lions swimming across a river in Uganda, in a feat that made its way into the Guiness Book of Records. The unique…

Perhaps this is a good time to remind holiday makers and visitors to South Africa’s tourist resorts that authorities in these places frown upon anybody flying a drone without express…

An American species preservation company has partnered with a wildlife conservation organisation to use drone technology to track elephants in Kenya. Texas-based Colossal Biosciences, which describes itself as a de-extinction…