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Inside Europe: High tech drone fights poaching on Cyprus

Nathan Morley
November 2, 2017

Every autumn, vast numbers of songbirds migrate from Europe to Africa. Many of them use the island of Cyprus as a place to rest and feed. But many of these birds never leave – instead they’re caught by poachers. Now police on a British military base on the island have launched the latest weapon in the fight against illegal bird trappers – a high-tech drone. Nathan Morley reports.

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