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Google-Funded Drones Hunt Poachers

With $5 million from Google, the World Wildlife Fund is deploying unarmed drones to track and hunt down wildlife poachers. The beta drones were unarmed, super lightweight, and users launched them by throwing them into the air like model aircrafts. Now Google and the WWF are experiementing with new technologies like UAVs and tagging to strengthen animal conservation.