Drones to keep an eye on national parks
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A programme to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, was launched yesterday to survey conserved forestland and wildlife populations in Prachuap Khiri Khan's Kui Buri National Park and Tub Lan National Park, which straddles Nakhon Ra
Nipon Chotibal, chief of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, yesterday signed an agreement for a natural-resource and environmental survey with the Aerospace Engineering Department of Kasetsart University.
He said the drones, which could pass on a real-time feed to the controlling station, would survey the Kui Buri gaur population. The UAVs will also survey land encroachment in Tub Lan, because some areas are difficult for officials to access on foot.
Nipon said he would soon have experts demonstrate a drone to the minister of natural resources and environment, General Dapong Rattanasuwan, and he hoped there would be a drone at each national park.
