{"id":1925,"date":"2014-05-03T14:46:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T14:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2014-05-05T13:09:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T13:09:06","slug":"science-in-action-drones-against-poachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?p=1925","title":{"rendered":"Science in Action: Drones against Poachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1926\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1080934.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1926\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1926\" alt=\"Kitso (right) and friends at the testing range near Schiphol.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1080934-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kitso (right) and friends at the testing range near Schiphol.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the BBC science series <em>Science in Action<\/em>, I produced an item on Kitso Epema, a master student at aeronautical engineering (TU Delft) who, together with other students, develops a drone to assist park rangers in Africa against the ever more numerous and brutal poachers who target \u00a0rhinos in the national parks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Science in Action \/ 24 April 2014 \/ 27 mins\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Content:\u00a0Scientists decode the genome of the fly that spreads sleeping sickness; Has the environmental impact of a proposed canal across the country been assessed fully?; Was the recent fatal avalanche linked to human activity?; Can drones help catch rhino poachers in South Africa?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p01xw8tc\">fragment<\/a> on the BBC website.<\/p>\n<p>Or listen to <a title=\"SciA-podcast\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jos-wassink\/scia_20140424-2030amp3\" target=\"_blank\">podcast<\/a> at Soundcloud.Item with Kitso starts at 19:50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the BBC science series Science in Action, I produced an item on Kitso Epema, a master student at aeronautical engineering (TU Delft) who, together with other students, develops a drone to assist park rangers in Africa against the ever more numerous and brutal poachers who target \u00a0rhinos in the national parks. Science in Action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[491,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc-science-in-action","category-rad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}