Conservation Drones

How drones are emerging as a valuable conservation tool | Lian Pin Koh via Environment 360

Hallie Siegel 25 Aug 2014

Our first project was to find a cheaper way to monitor orangutan populations in Sumatra. Traditionally people have to walk the forest on foot and count the nests in the forest canopy, and from those c...

Drones against illegal fishing

Dronologista 24 Jul 2014

Image source: Flickr With industry losses worth US$23 billion per year, illegal fishing represents a major global problem. One out of three bluefin tunas are caught illegally, as are around 20% of a...

TED Global 2013 speaker Lian Pin Koh on “Conservation Drones”

Lian Pin Koh and Serge Wich 11 Jun 2013

Lian Pin Koh (left) and Serge Wich (right) in Zurich with an early prototype of Conservation Drone. TED Global speaker/drone ecologist Lian Pin Koh and fellow researcher Serge Wich share how drones a...