This morning, CCTV News exposed the case of modified drone hunting.Revealed a "high-tech ecological killer" that is spreading in many places across the country. Criminals will modify drones, equipped with infrared thermal imaging equipment, to target animal heat sources at night, and drop special belt tools at high altitudes to create lethal lethality through gravity acceleration.
In the Chongqing Yongchuan case, the suspect used a thermal imaging drone to lock the target at an altitude of 30-50 meters, and dropped a metal arrow with a cross-blade design (called a "toothpick" in jargon) or a steel ball weighing 500 grams.
The former uses gravity acceleration to penetrate large animals (such as civets), while the latter hits small animals (such as hares), with a fatality rate of nearly 100%.
In the case of Shaoyang, Hunan, criminals used drones to mount a 2-meter-diameter trapping net to cover pheasants and other prey, and showed off in short videos.
Chongqing police identified the trajectory of the suspect's vehicle through more than 20 days of investigation, intercepted the vehicle at a highway intersection in the early morning, and found drones, arrows, steel balls and carcasses of protected animals such as hares and civets at the scene.
In addition to poaching,This behavior itself is also very harmful. Errors in thermal imaging recognition may lead to accidental injuries to people and animals, and "toothpicks" falling from high altitudes can cause serious injury or even death..
It is understood that the above behaviors violate the Wildlife Protection Law and the Interim Regulations on the Management of Unmanned Aircraft Flights. If the circumstances are serious, they will be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, control or fines. Currently, many people have been criminally detained, and relevant cases are under trial.
