Conservation from 5,000 feet

Conservation from 5,000 feet
Vienna (UPI) Apr 14, 2015 - It's not enough to simply classify a large swath of habitat as protected. Conservation requires regularly monitoring, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology say. In a recent study, scientists at the Austrian school explain how nature preserves can be effectively monitored from the air, using aircraft and laser technology. Nature preserves make up some 20 percent of Eu ... more

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