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Plymouth Rock Technologies announce new drone contract for monitoring endangered species in Madagascar

by Zoe Deighton Smythe
14/07/2021
in New Technology, PRESS RELEASE, Surveillance
Plymouth Rock Technologies announce new drone contract for monitoring endangered species in Madagascar

Plymouth Rock Technologies has announced a new contract for the sale and delivery of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (“Durrell”) to perform critical environmental operations in Madagascar.

Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is an international charity working to save species from extinction. Headquartered at Jersey Zoo in the Channel Islands, Durrell focuses on the most threatened species in the most threatened places.

At the beginning of 2019, a team of conservationists from Durrell, alongside researchers from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) visited Lac Alaotra to trial the use of drone-based thermal infrared cameras as a new way of monitoring the lemurs and identifying any potential poachers.

Thermal or infrared imaging is the process of taking digital pictures with a specialised camera, which record infrared or heat radiation as opposed to visible light.

The drone would essentially fly over large areas of otherwise inaccessible marshes and detect the lemurs from their body heat, making them much easier to spot and allowing the team to obtain more accurate estimates of their population size. In a single 20-minute flight, the drone was able to cover a greater area of the marsh than a canoe team could cover in two days, hugely increasing the efficiency of the surveys.

The infrared trial had an immediate measurable impact on efficiencies to aid Durrell’s work towards rebuilding healthy wetlands for wildlife, and the people that rely on them. The team immediately envisaged how this technology could be adapted for use at other sites and with other species in Madagascar.

Due to the success of this trial, the team received a large research grant from United Kingdom Research Innovation (UKRI) to continue the development of this monitoring system.

“This project captivated the entire PRT/Tetra team” stated Carl Cagliarini, Chief Strategy Officer of Plymouth Rock Technologies. “We are honoured to have been chosen to supply our UAS technologies to this project and are thrilled to working with Durrell and LJMU / AI Conservation.

“AI being used to assist in endangered species conservation is a tremendously important technology application. We also look forward to further collaboration with the team at AI Conservation on both their future efforts and other projects that we have identified that can leverage their capabilities.”

www.plyrotech.com

www.durrell.org

Tags: dronesDurrell Wildlifeendangered speciesMadagascarPlymouth Rock TechnologiessurveillenceUnmanned Aircraft Systems
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