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Cameras to prevent poaching

Bid to protect rhinos wins Google award

State-of-the-art camera traps are to be installed to prevent elephant and rhino poaching in Tsavo National Park, Kenya.

The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) won a £500,000 grant for the project from Google's Global Impact Awards.

Cameras with automated sensors will be deployed in poaching hotspots within the next few months, which will transmit images of any intruders.

The cameras can also detect vehicles from vibrations, and triangulate the sound of gunshots, allowing park rangers to locate poachers and intervene immediately.

"These life-saving cameras will help stop the slaughter of rhinos, which has seen more than 1,000 killed in Africa in just eighteen months," says Professor Jonathan Baillie, ZSL's field conservation director.


"Over the next two years we plan to cut poaching in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park by 50 per cent and help park rangers protect endangered rhinos, elephants, and more, before it’s too late."


The project received thousands of votes from the public, placing it ahead of nine other candidates for the Google award. Celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio, Derren Brown and Edith Bowman also lent their support to the project. 

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Birmingham Dogs Home makes urgent appeal

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 Birmingham Dogs Home has issued an urgent winter appeal as it faces more challenges over the Christmas period.

The rescue centre has seen a dramatic increase in dogs coming into its care, and is currently caring for over 200 dogs. With rising costs and dropping temperatures, the charity is calling for urgent support.

It costs the charity £6,000 per day to continue its work.

Fi Harrison, head of fundraising and communications, said: "It's heart-breaking for our team to see the conditions some dogs arrive in. We really are their last chance and hope of survival."

More information about the appeal can be found here. 

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Avian flu confirmed at premises in Cornwall

A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been detected in commercial poultry at a premises near Rosudgeon, Cornwall.

All poultry on the infected site will be humanely culled, and a 3km protection zone and 10km surveillance zone have been put in place. Poultry and other captive birds in the 3km protection zone must be housed.

The case is the second avian flu case confirmed in commercial poultry this month. The H5N5 strain was detected in a premises near Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, in early November. Before then, the disease had not been confirmed in captive birds in England since February.

The UK chief veterinary officer has urged bird keepers to remain alert and practise robust biosecurity.

A map of the disease control zones can be found here.