Bathawk Recon

ESO Gets Drone Pioneer Award
Bathawk Recon has been recognized through Elephant Survival Organization at a huge UAV convention last week in Berlin. With the hundreds of new applications our UAV Anti Poaching idea caught their attention. This isn’t an award for the best drone: it’s an award for the best drone idea. BHR & ESO deserve this for the long haul to get a Tanzanian project up on the world stage. Three aircraft, three trials and three years of building partnerships. That’s the Private Sector Anti Poaching Initiative part: key to the whole effort!!
https://youtu.be/yoRXaVtbN7g

The key operational players in the four way Memorandum of Understanding to fly drones for anti poaching are TANAPA and Bathawk Recon. The other parties interact with the authorities and funders but the operators will actually do the job and hopefully demonstrate that an “intelligence led” anti poaching surveillance operation can work. Teamwork will be the key as this approach depends on finding intruders based on intelligence and deduction and then bringing rangers to the location. That’s a big shift from the standard ranger patrol tradition.

https://eturbonews.com/164573/tanzania-deploys-drones-national-park-fight-poaching

Bathawk Recon is directed to change venue of its UAV Anti Poaching plans to Katavi National Park not Tarangire. The company’s goal is to provide a service that is completely mobile and can move from one park to another without missing a beat. Meanwhile the crew is keen as Director Tom Lithgow who has been hundreds of times knows every corner of Katavi. The team is psyched and just waiting for the starting gun, actually just the signature on the authorization. Like the motto says –We Own the Night! To learn more click link http://bat-hawkrecon.com/index.php/proof-of-concept/

Thank You Elephant Survival Organization!
Bathawk Recon is developing strategic UAV Anti Poaching Surveillance Services that it hopes will revolutionize Aerial Reconnaissance in African Protected areas. It’s a tough job which requires innovative solutions combining technology, operations and security in unique ways. Elephant survival organization is our compass that guides us through the complexities of ministerial responsibilities and shapes our approach to the conservation community in Tanzania and especially in the States. Congratulations on opening up your State-Side 501(c)(3) http://elephantsurvival.org/?page_id=26 and affiliate. We wish you the best in your new American fundraising campaign.

Congratulations to Malawi testing UAV AP technology but there’s more to it than launching a drone in the bush. This is a complex equation that requires a solution for multiple variables. Protocols for ranger operations, training for pilots (more like wildlife video ninjas), plans that integrate intelligence; links to extra-park law enforcement and well as relationships to develop human recognition software. Google started this race in 2013 when WWF were quick off the blocks; but they will need to incorporate plenty more to successfully stay in this game.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/science/drones-africa-poachers-wildlife.html?_r=0

High Above, Drones Keep Watchful Eyes on Wildlife in Africa Drones seemed like the perfect anti-poaching tools. But deploying them has been far more difficult than conservationists had hoped.