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Enter the Wildlife Conservation Society, who in June started up a unique project partnering the fisheries departments in Belize with a U.S. group called Conservation Drones. The idea is to operate a fleet of drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), to help patrol the area around Belize for illegal fishing vessels. Currently the drones are restricted to the mainland, but as the project develops, the aircraft will gradually move to Glover Reef, an atoll of the southern coast of Belize and a protected area as determined by the 1993 Fisheries Act.
Although drones rose to popularity in the unfortunate context of the war in the Middle East, UAVs now serve a number of more practical and mundane functions, such as studying wildlife and managing farms. Many private citizens have even begun manufacturing their own UAVs as novelties or for private use. The robot aircraft are not only cheap to build, but run no risk of human casualty since they are operated remotely.
Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140718-drones-illegal-fishing-pirate-belize-ocean/
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