Have you been to the kruger park? Do you have any idea how big it is? It's impossible to cover such areas on foot and poachers can move even by helicopters. Also if it continues like that, we'll be out of rhinos at some point soon, so no guards at all (and no tourists either)

Have you seen some of the types of terrain involved. Doing it manually is like two needles looking for each other in a haystack.

You'll still need boots on the ground once the poachers have been found and with increased success it's just possible that more guards would be employed if the system was effective and was able to attract more funding as a result.

I'm sorry, but this comment is extremely ignorant on what's busy going on here in South Africa.

The poaching syndicates are all armed with automatic rifles. The park rangers aren't trained to deal with threats like these. Our government has started deploying army troops, but the Kruger Park is so huge that it doesn't help much.

Any help, whether human or robotic, is desperately needed.

Yeah! Maybe we could take away their transport too and create extra jobs!

Great point! Perhaps we should also hobble the Africans who manually track poachers so we create twice as many jobs!

This assumes that if you free up the time of people currently tracking poachers manually by walking around in the fields, for free, then there will be nothing else for them to do (which I doubt is the case)

I wish I had enough "Karma" to downvote you.

Luddite.