Using New Technologies to Preserve Wildlife and Wild Spaces
(World News USA)

Editor`s Note: This is a guest post by Larry M. Silverberg, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and director of the Namibia Wildlife Aerial Observatory Project. In our ongoing Research Matters series, NC State researchers address the value of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In just a few decades, if current trends continue, the world`s majestic rhino, elephant, giraffe and other large African wildlife species will be extinct. African parks dedicated to wildlife conservation lack the resources to protect these animals from criminal syndicates that profit from poaching. I co-founded the Namibia Wildlife Aerial Observatory (WAO) Project to...