Zero Poaching II: expanding the frontline
The follow-up to The Path to Zero Poaching, filmed as thermal cameras went onto patrol vehicles across more of Kenya’s conservancies.
Published on Afrovo Studios’ YouTube channel.
Taking thermal on patrol
After fixed thermal cameras proved themselves at Ol Pejeta, the next step was to put the technology where rangers work at night: on their vehicles. FLIR and WWF donated 13 truck-mounted thermal cameras, and this phase put them on vehicles at conservancies including Ol Pejeta, Solio, Meru and Ol Jogi.
The cameras let rangers watch wildlife and possible threats from a distance, which cuts down on risky close encounters and disturbs the animals less. In our film, Ranger Collins at Solio describes how thermal imaging has changed patrols and made both rangers and animals safer.
The expansion builds on the long partnership between WWF, FLIR, the Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenyan conservancies.
Truck-mounted thermal cameras donated for night patrols.
FLIR, March 2025Covered per camera by a small ranger team.
FLIR, March 2025Poaching at Solio since its thermal system switched on in late 2023.
WWF, May 2025
