Rangers look at an anti-poaching aircraft named Seeker at Kruger National Park in South Africa. The country has taken its war against rhinoceros poaching to the skies by deploying a high-tech, low-speed reconnaissance aircraft to detect illegal hunters before they strike. Home to nearly all the continent’s rhinos, South Africa is on the frontline of a poaching war in which criminals with high-powered weapons, helicopters and night-vision goggles have been killing the animals for their horns, which sell at prices higher than gold in Asia as a traditional medicine. The anti-poaching aircraft is equipped with sophisticated heat sensors to detect animals and humans, and a quiet engine. |
