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Good idea! Lets make the Africans who manually track poachers jobless!

smackay 14y ago
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.
dools 14y ago
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)
fijal 14y ago
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)
- qompiler 14y ago
  So use helicopters aswell?
EtienneK 14y ago
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.
EvilTerran 14y ago
Luddite.
- EvilTerran 14y ago
  ... maybe I should have elaborated that a bit. The original Luddites opposed technological advancement solely on the grounds that it would put people out of jobs. It's my impression that the modern consensus is that their stance was woefully misguided. However, it's precisely the same attitude that qompiler presented in the comment I was replying to.
Tyrant505 14y ago
I wish I had enough "Karma" to downvote you.
pbateman 14y ago
Great point! Perhaps we should also hobble the Africans who manually track poachers so we create twice as many jobs!
nodata 14y ago
Yeah! Maybe we could take away their transport too and create extra jobs!

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.

dools 14y ago

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)

fijal 14y ago

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)

qompiler 14y ago
So use helicopters aswell?

EtienneK 14y ago

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.

EvilTerran 14y ago

Luddite.

EvilTerran 14y ago
... maybe I should have elaborated that a bit. The original Luddites opposed technological advancement solely on the grounds that it would put people out of jobs. It's my impression that the modern consensus is that their stance was woefully misguided. However, it's precisely the same attitude that qompiler presented in the comment I was replying to.

Tyrant505 14y ago

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

pbateman 14y ago

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

nodata 14y ago

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