Reuters: South Africa has taken its war against rhino poaching to the skies by deploying a high-tech, low-speed reconnaissance aircraft to detect illegal hunters before they strike.
"This is a war. You cannot take a stick to a gunfight," Ivor Ichikowitz, executive chairman of Africa's largest privately held defense firm, Paramount, said on Tuesday. Paramount manufactured the small, specialized plane donated to the South Africa National Park Service.
South Africa, home to nearly all the continent's rhinos,......
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South Africa deploys high-tech plane for rhino poaching fight
Posted by Reuters: Peroshni Govender on December 4th, 2012
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