Drone technology being used to save threatened species on land and in the sea

Technology first developed to unlock the secrets of the cosmos may soon be used to count animals and locate poachers in the jungles of Asia and Africa.

The idea was born out of a conversation between two neighbors who work at Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom.

Over the garden fence, primatologist Serge Wich and astrophysicist Steven Longmore discussed the challenges of conducting population surveys of apes in dense foliage.