In South Africa’s Balule Nature Reserve, an all-female anti-poaching unit is using live streaming and Samsung’s smartphone technology to support its conservation efforts and enlist volunteers from around the world.
For upwards of three million years, we humans and our antecedents have used tools to interface with the natural world around us. But in the last few decades, the human population has exploded and our tools today are having globally damaging impacts, transforming biomes across the planet. Yet our technologies also have the potential to mend our relationship with nature, protecting ecosystems and recovering lost biodiversity–if we develop and deploy them in the right ways.
The Olifants West Nature Reserve, Greater Kruger, Limpopo Province is home to many iconic African mammals, including the “Big Five”–elephant, lion, buffalo, rhino and leopard.“Resources for animals, rangers and anti-poaching units were vastly depleted,” says conservationist and digital marketing expert Peter Stewart. “Many local people who worked in ecotourism lost their jobs, so there was a much higher risk of informal poaching.
A ranger from the Black Mambas anti-poaching unit records a giraffe on the move in Olifants West Nature Reserve, Greater Kruger, Limpopo Province in South Africa.By combining Africam’s live streaming infrastructure with the advanced camera systems and mobile technology of the latest Samsung Galaxy devices, the new partnership would build a global community of virtual rangers who could, in theory, monitor wildlife around the clock.
“Our mission is to show people that we are here and we're patrolling the boundaries of the reserve to make the Kruger National Park an undesirable place for poachers,” says Sergeant Felicia Mogakane of the Black Mambas. “People started to believe in us because they've really seen our impact—that our model is effective… we are protecting the wildlife in there. Ever since we've been deployed, no rhino has been killed in our reserve.
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