Rhino slaughter at crisis point - Help ZSL win the race to install next generation camera traps
May 2013. More than 1,000 African rhinos have been slaughtered in just eighteen months, as armed poachers cash in on soaring demand for horns. Conservationists racing to build next generation camera traps for deployment in poaching hotspots, are appealing for public support to secure crucial funds to save hundreds of rhinos and elephants over the next two years.
£500,000 to buy camera traps - Vote Now
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is in the running to receive a £500,000 Global Impact Award from Google that would allow cameras, equipped with automated sensors, to be installed in Tsavo National Park, Kenya, within months; creating a safety net of eyes and ears to protect threatened wildlife.
The cameras transmit images, detect passing vehicle vibrations and even triangulate the sound of gunshots, to provide an accurate location of poachers. Information can be sent to rangers in real-time, enabling immediate intervention.
ZSL's field conservation director, Professor Jonathan Baillie, says: "Rhinos are being massacred daily by gangs of armed poachers. This large-scale organised crime means law enforcers are being overpowered, but our new cameras will help turn the tide and put an end to this slaughter."
Professor Baillie, adds: "We now need the public to vote for us to receive this Google Impact Award and get these life-saving cameras out to law enforcers and park rangers before it's too late."
Vote Now - Voting closes on 31st May 2013
The project is a finalist in Google's Global Impact Challenge, with a public voting window open from 22 to 31 May 2013
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