{"id":15886,"date":"2014-08-20T07:46:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rhino-finda-app-to-fight-poaching\/"},"modified":"2014-08-20T07:46:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:46:44","slug":"rhino-finda-app-to-fight-poaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rhino-finda-app-to-fight-poaching\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rhino Finda\u2019 app to Fight Poaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy has acquired software that helps identify poachers and counts animals in real time.<\/p>\n

In a statement Wednesday, Ol Pejeta\u2019s public relations manager, Ms Elodie Sampere, said the “Rhino Finda” app developed by a student, James Ault, is able to analyse thermal imaging footage to automatically identify a poacher moving within the sanctuary for swift response.<\/p>\n

She said the app can accurately count all animals, thereby helping the sanctuary save on costs usually incurred in conducting the largely erroneous physical census.<\/p>\n

{{Worldwide competition }} <\/p>\n

Mr Ault\u2019s app was chosen following a worldwide competition that attracted app submissions from students. The competition was placed on MindSumo.com, an online marketplace that connects college students to companies and other organisations through challenges.<\/p>\n

The challenges represent real-world problems that students can help solve to win prizes and potential career opportunities.<\/p>\n

Ol Pejeta challenged the college students from around the world to help in the development of recognition software that uses a combination of visual and thermal signatures to identify wildlife automatically.<\/p>\n

\u201cInnovation is a natural part of Ol Pejeta Conservancy\u2019s way of enhancing wildlife protection and conservation. As East Africa\u2019s largest black rhino conservancy and home to a host of other endangered species, we are constantly innovating new ways to enhance our work,\u201d Ms Sampere said.<\/p>\n

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{White rhinos grazing at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia County,Kenya on August 5, 2014. The private conservancy is believed to be East Africa’s largest black rhino sanctuary}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy has acquired software that helps identify poachers and counts animals in real time. In a statement Wednesday, Ol Pejeta\u2019s public relations manager, Ms Elodie Sampere, said the “Rhino Finda” app developed by a student, James Ault, is able to analyse thermal imaging footage to automatically identify a poacher moving within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000053553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-15886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000053553,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15886.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15886.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15886.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15886.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15886.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15886.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000053553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=15886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}