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With the help of modern security technology, apps and drones, endangered rhinoceros and elephants can be protected from poachers.

The rhinoceroses in Africa are under threat of extinction. Technology from LiU will improve security in national parks and save the lives of rhinos as well as park rangers.

Machine learning and smart cameras will be used to make it easier to monitor the large animals in African nature reserves. The technology has been developed by scientists and students at Linköping University.

A new agreement has been signed this summer to continue the collaboration to save Africa’s rhinos from poachers. “The number of rhinos is increasing in Kenya, the only country in Africa where this is happening", says Professor Fredrik Gustafsson.

The black market in rhinoceros horn is worth billions of dollars, and poaching is driving the species towards extinction. However, the drive against poaching is now to be given new impetus with the aid of the most recent technology.