This project was a big one financially, but when One Land Love It contacted us to help, we absolutely agreed to partner with them.
Mount Camdeboo in the Eastern Cape serves as home to rhino on a private reserve.  In order to keep their rhino safe, this project consisted of dehorning seven rhino, purchasing and fitting them with AI tracking collars, purchase of the monitoring system infrastructure, permits, and helicopter fees to get the job done quickly and efficiently.

AI tracking is becoming an efficient method to monitor and safeguard endangered species in their natural habitat.  It serves as a conservation tool and anti-poaching prevention. Reserves and researchers use AI to observe and oversee rhino locations, migration patterns, social dynamics, and specific movement.  By attaching a tracking sensor on the leg of a rhino, AI processes vast amounts of satellite imagery and sensor data, and can analyze changes in land cover, individual and herd movement, and changes in behavior.  Algorithms enable wildlife conservationists to monitor the rhino and the ecosystem in real time.  In the event of abnormal behavior, such as births, deaths, and injury, real-time alerts will provide the rhino’s location enabling Anti-Poaching Units to respond immediately.

A project of this scale requires help from many different people.

-Permits have to be filed.
-A helicopter must be secured for the date of the project.
-Fuel and a skilled pilot must be purchased.
-The attending veterinarian and his team must be booked.
-Supplies must be on hand.
-Researchers and conservationists are invited to take part and increase their knowledge of the species.
-Tools must be ready and in good working order.
-Tracking collars must be tested and functioning.
-Rhino must be located and darted with sedative from the helicopter.
-The entire process must be done as quickly as possible with as little stress on the rhino as possible.