WWF Uses Google Money for Drones to Fight Poaching
Google has given a $5 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), which the organization will implement to curb poaching.
Provided as a donation given as part of Google's Global Impact Awards that totaled $23 million, the WWF said it will implement a sophisticated monitoring technology that will help protect tigers, elephants, and rhinoceroses from being attacked and killed by poaching gangs.
The technology will be based on electronic animal tagging and "remote aerial survey units", signal receivers on the ground as well as guidance software for law enforcement to intercept poachers. Remote aerial surveillance apparently refers to the use of drones - a word the WWF and Google reportedly avoid due its military and negative connotation. The devices will be able to report the location of hunters, calculate the best interception path, as well as ground photography.
The WWF said that the grant enables the organization "to test advanced but easily-replicable technologies and create an overarching system to curb poaching. […] Our goal is to create an efficient, effective network that can be adopted globally."
There was no information how many drones the Google donation would allow the WWF to buy.
I think wrestling is stupid. Personally I like the prospect of pandas not going extinct much better.
I have dozens of men armed with AK-47s, and a couple of bribed soldiers and government officials.
Bring it on.
Exactly, WWE should fight back and win over their name again.
After all who cares about this silly group?
On the other hand the World Wide Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment **current name is lame ** is widely known with fans world wide, while the panda loving ****** will never be as popular as the REAL WWF.
I think wrestling is stupid. Personally I like the prospect of pandas not going extinct much better.
Why bother reinventing the wheel? Google should provide them with Predator drones manned via a customized version of Google Earth (Hey if you can mod it to act as a flight sim, you can mod it to fly a drone).
What's that you have AK47s? ... but do you have Hellfire missles?
damn it so good so fast
exactly. The immediate negative reaction to WWF is huge. The "WWE" really should pay damages for the mess they caused.
Every time is see WWF I think "what are those backwards ass, soap opera loving morons doing on scifi. That trash belongs on spike."
Then I have to remember its the world wildlife fund and they actually do something sort of useful.
Bumped you to -2.