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Cameras to prevent poaching

Bid to protect rhinos wins Google award

State-of-the-art camera traps are to be installed to prevent elephant and rhino poaching in Tsavo National Park, Kenya.

The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) won a £500,000 grant for the project from Google's Global Impact Awards.

Cameras with automated sensors will be deployed in poaching hotspots within the next few months, which will transmit images of any intruders.

The cameras can also detect vehicles from vibrations, and triangulate the sound of gunshots, allowing park rangers to locate poachers and intervene immediately.

"These life-saving cameras will help stop the slaughter of rhinos, which has seen more than 1,000 killed in Africa in just eighteen months," says Professor Jonathan Baillie, ZSL's field conservation director.


"Over the next two years we plan to cut poaching in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park by 50 per cent and help park rangers protect endangered rhinos, elephants, and more, before it’s too late."


The project received thousands of votes from the public, placing it ahead of nine other candidates for the Google award. Celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio, Derren Brown and Edith Bowman also lent their support to the project. 

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Practices urged to audit neutering data

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 RCVS Knowledge has called on vet practices to audit their post-operative neutering outcomes.

It follows the release of the 2024 NASAN benchmarking report, which collates data from neutering procedures performed on dogs, cats and rabbits.

The benchmarking report enables practices in the UK and Ireland to compare their post-operative outcomes to the national average. This includes the rate of patients lost to follow-up, which in 2024 increased to 23 per cent.

Anyone from the practice can submit the data using a free template. The deadline for next report is February 2026.

Visit the RCVS Knowledge website to complete an audit. 

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RCVS pays tribute to well-loved equine vet

The RCVS and the Riding Establishments Subcommittee has paid tribute to well-loved veterinary surgeon and riding establishment inspector, Rebecca Hamilton-Fletcher MRCVS.

Linda Belton MRCVS, RCVS President, said: "I, along with my colleagues on the RESC, RCVS Council, RCVS Standards Committee, as well as RCVS staff, was very saddened to hear of the sudden death of Rebecca, or Becca as we knew her, last week.

"She was a true advocate for equine welfare and in her many years on the RESC worked to continually improve the quality and consistency of riding establishment inspections, all in the interests of enhanced horse welfare and rider safety."