Saturday, June 23, 2012

Nepal launches drones to combat poachers



AFP

KATHMANDU: Conservationists in Nepal are to
send drone aircraft into the skies in the battle to save
the Himalayan nation's endangered tigers and
rhinos from poachers.

Handout photograph from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Nepal showing conservationists from the WWF testing an automated drone aircraft in Chitwan National Park on June 12, 2012.
WWF Nepal said it had successfully tested two

unmanned "conservation drones" earlier this month
in Chitwan National Park, in Nepal's southern
plains, the home of a nu