{"id":13877,"date":"2024-03-26T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T08:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/eyes-in-the-sky-why-drones-are-beyond-effective-for-animal-rights-campaigners-around-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T09:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T08:38:21","slug":"eyes-in-the-sky-why-drones-are-beyond-effective-for-animal-rights-campaigners-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/eyes-in-the-sky-why-drones-are-beyond-effective-for-animal-rights-campaigners-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes in the sky: why drones are \u2018beyond effective\u2019 for animal rights campaigners around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inexpensive and easy to use, drones are proving invaluable for activists monitoring illegal fishing, hunting and deforestation \u2013 as well as keeping tabs on zoos and aquariums<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, UrgentSeas received an anonymous tip from a former employee at the Miami Seaquarium about animal tanks away from public view. The advocacy group went to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>In November, they posted a short clip of what they found by flying a drone over the property: an elderly manatee living alone in a decaying private pool. Within a month, the clip had been watched millions of times and the outcry had grown so intense that the US Fish and Wildlife Service moved the manatee, Romeo, and his mate, Juliet, to a sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/mar\/26\/drones-beyond-effective-for-animal-rights-campaigners-around-the-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b93ecf9fafc981bf2390819796e99705149ec8e3\/0_45_1600_960\/master\/1600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=27b15d19c497523d73785099341647bf\" title=\"Eyes in the sky: why drones are \u2018beyond effective\u2019 for animal rights campaigners around the world\" \/>Inexpensive and easy to use, drones are proving invaluable for activists monitoring illegal fishing, hunting and deforestation \u2013 as well as keeping tabs on zoos and aquariums<br \/>\nLate last year, UrgentSeas received an anonymous tip from a former employee at the Miami Seaquarium about animal tanks away from public view. The advocacy group went to investigate.<br \/>\nIn November, they posted a short clip of what they found by flying a drone over the property: an elderly manatee living alone in a decaying private pool. Within a month, the clip had been watched millions of times and the outcry had grown so intense that the US Fish and Wildlife Service moved the manatee, Romeo, and his mate, Juliet, to a sanctuary. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inexpensive and easy to use, drones are proving invaluable for activists monitoring illegal fishing, hunting and deforestation \u2013 as well as keeping tabs on zoos and aquariums Late last year, UrgentSeas received an anonymous tip from a former employee at the Miami Seaquarium about animal tanks away from public view. The advocacy group went to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/eyes-in-the-sky-why-drones-are-beyond-effective-for-animal-rights-campaigners-around-the-world\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eyes in the sky: why drones are \u2018beyond effective\u2019 for animal rights campaigners around the world<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}