Corporate social responsibility and drones – how do they fit together?

For several years, conservationists have been fighting against the illegal operation of drones over designated nature reserves.

Even though these biotopes attract many leisure pilots with very special motifs of the flora and fauna from a bird’s eye view, overflights are rightly strictly regulated, as the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation has stated in a detailed brochure described.

We are aware of this responsibility with every new project and subject new flight routes to rigorous review to minimize the impact on our environment with every flight.

However, we are aware that we cannot rule out every possible impairment from the outset.

Therefore, we want to use our aviation expertise and the privileges granted to us under the general permit of the Berlin-Brandenburg Aviation Authority to engage in fawn rescue using drones with integrated thermal imaging cameras.

Rehkitzrettung Brandenburg e.V.

The mowing operations on Brandenburg's countless fields in spring, which coincide with the breeding and nesting season of wild animals (especially fawns), put young animals in particular at risk. Fawns have no natural instinct to flee in their first weeks of life, but freeze when threatened, quickly becoming victims of agricultural machinery.

To prevent this, owners and managers of fields can contact the Roe Deer Rescue Brandenburg eV to have your field inspected free of charge before any mowing work.

Due to the size and dense vegetation of the agricultural areas, an efficient search is only possible with modern drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras that systematically search the fields for young animals, which are then carefully transported to a safe location by a specially trained team.

We actively support this great initiative and try to save as many fawns as possible from certain death at the hands of combine harvesters and the like.

Rehkitzrettung Brandenburg e.V.