{"id":24712,"date":"2026-09-03T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/bring-on-the-drones-how-a-technology-revolution-is-being-rolled-out-across-africas-nature-reserves\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:37:37","slug":"bring-on-the-drones-how-a-technology-revolution-is-being-rolled-out-across-africas-nature-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/bring-on-the-drones-how-a-technology-revolution-is-being-rolled-out-across-africas-nature-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa\u2019s nature reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As graduates of an online training course gather from across the continent, the consensus is overwhelming: computers and saving animals go together<\/p>\n<p>On a bitingly cold night in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapalala.com\/\">Lapalala Wilderness<\/a> nature reserve in South Africa\u2019s Limpopo province, Duncan Kanyakera watches as instructor Jacques Viljoen deploys a thermal drone in search of a lone cheetah. Once the drone has disappeared into the inky sky, Kanyakera, from Tsavo in Kenya, and 20 other conservation professionals from across Africa turn their attention to the open-air screen in anticipation.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the students \u2013 from 11 African countries as far flung as Benin, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar \u2013 witnessing the demonstration have earned their places at Lapalala after performing well on an online training programme for protected area technicians (PAT) run by the Connected Conservation Foundation (CCF). Also on the course, are five members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peaceparks.org\/\">Peace Parks<\/a> staff in training.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/sep\/03\/drones-south-africa-tech-revolution-african-conservation-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d5c69fcb9ad057ec9a3f3cf2ac5587bb23cae7e1\/0_1314_3888_3110\/master\/3888.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e7dc61ae24c65c996c815e45a8cd70ac\" title=\"Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa\u2019s nature reserves\" \/>As graduates of an online training course gather from across the continent, the consensus is overwhelming: computers and saving animals go together<br \/>\nOn a bitingly cold night in Lapalala Wilderness nature reserve in South Africa\u2019s Limpopo province, Duncan Kanyakera watches as instructor Jacques Viljoen deploys a thermal drone in search of a lone cheetah. Once the drone has disappeared into the inky sky, Kanyakera, from Tsavo in Kenya, and 20 other conservation professionals from across Africa turn their attention to the open-air screen in anticipation.<br \/>\nMany of the students \u2013 from 11 African countries as far flung as Benin, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar \u2013 witnessing the demonstration have earned their places at Lapalala after performing well on an online training programme for protected area technicians (PAT) run by the Connected Conservation Foundation (CCF). Also on the course, are five members of Peace Parks staff in training. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As graduates of an online training course gather from across the continent, the consensus is overwhelming: computers and saving animals go together On a bitingly cold night in Lapalala Wilderness nature reserve in South Africa\u2019s Limpopo province, Duncan Kanyakera watches as instructor Jacques Viljoen deploys a thermal drone in search of a lone cheetah. Once &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/bring-on-the-drones-how-a-technology-revolution-is-being-rolled-out-across-africas-nature-reserves\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa\u2019s nature reserves<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24713,"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\/24712"}],"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=24712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}