"Google has awarded a $5 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund to use and adapt new technologies to combat animal poaching around the world. The group has grand plans for the money, which will be used for everything from camera-equipped drones to next-generation animal tags that send text messages with critical information to rangers." Google is going out of it's way to donate a very generous amount of money. I think this is yet another good thing that Google has done on top of the already cool things it does as a company everyday. I think that this is going to a good cause because the article states "Poacher operations have grown in scale and sophistication, despite efforts to curb them. Rhinos used to be poached at a rate of 15 or 20 per year in Africa — but now, because of high demand for rhino horn coming primarily from Asia, over 600 have been killed this year alone. Statistics for elephants and tigers are equally disturbing". This is obviously an issue and Google is doing a very good job to contribute to this cause. This technology that they are implementing with the funding money can be used for a number of things ranging from tracking African militia's to animal migrating habits. There is a lot of good that comes out of this technology
Thursday, September 26, 2013
"Google has awarded a $5 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund to use and adapt new technologies to combat animal poaching around the world. The group has grand plans for the money, which will be used for everything from camera-equipped drones to next-generation animal tags that send text messages with critical information to rangers." Google is going out of it's way to donate a very generous amount of money. I think this is yet another good thing that Google has done on top of the already cool things it does as a company everyday. I think that this is going to a good cause because the article states "Poacher operations have grown in scale and sophistication, despite efforts to curb them. Rhinos used to be poached at a rate of 15 or 20 per year in Africa — but now, because of high demand for rhino horn coming primarily from Asia, over 600 have been killed this year alone. Statistics for elephants and tigers are equally disturbing". This is obviously an issue and Google is doing a very good job to contribute to this cause. This technology that they are implementing with the funding money can be used for a number of things ranging from tracking African militia's to animal migrating habits. There is a lot of good that comes out of this technology
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