Who Are We?

Before founding DroneWild, company directors Ben and Katie Harrower established BH Wildlife Consultancy (BHWC) in 2018. It was through this venture that they identified the unique value in using thermal imagery drones as a tool for monitoring and surveying wildlife populations.

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Fast forward to today, and BHWC has a dedicated team of drone operators working across the UK and Europe. They conduct wildlife census surveys on a range of sizes, from small individual sites to extensive multi-day, landscape-scale operations, recording the populations of deer, feral goats, wild boar, birds and even projects where wildcats and wolves are present.  BHWC have also been called in to high profile national projects such as tracking Honshu the snow monkey through the Cairngorms.  

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​​​​​These surveys have yielded groundbreaking data and results, offering unprecedented insights into wildlife population dynamics. By providing landowners and organisations with a baseline population of target species, backed by geospatial data and imagery, they offer a crucial context for setting and achieving environmental and conservation targets.

And so, through a somewhat natural process, the knowledge and expertise gained through these larger-scale wildlife surveys were adapted to meet the requirements set out in Challenge 9.3 by Forestry & Land Scotland: to help Wildlife Rangers identify the exact location of every animal larger than 5 kilograms in a specified area in real-time. 

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By taking our proven systems, and modifying them into a more portable, cost-effective and user-friendly package, trained individuals and organisations can independently deploy a drone, locate and identify a target species in a specified location, and track its exact location in real-time. And, perhaps, even more impressively - all that technology is now portable in the field.