By Chloe Greenbank As head of Virunga National Park’s Air Wing programme, Anthony Caere is a pilot with a plan – to protect the park and the animals living in it one flight at a time. t’s not every day you come across a chimpanzee in the cockpit, but for Anthony Caere it’s not that unusual. Head of Virunga National…
South African National Parks (SANParks) has announced that Anglo American Platinum has donated a second Bat Hawk aircraft to assist in anti-poaching efforts across South Africa, which has seen a 78% decrease in rhino poaching. The Bat Hawk will go to SANParks’ Addo Elephant National Park in the Eastern Cape.
By Tsoku Maela Building on last year’s donation of four Bat Hawk surveillance aircraft to South African National Parks (SANParks) to aid surveillance, conservation and anti-poaching efforts in the Kruger National Park, Anglo American Platinum this morning donated another Bat Hawk that will be going to SANParks’ Addo Elephant National Park in the Eastern Cape. In addition, a Bat Hawk aircraft…
Conservation efforts in the Addo Elephant National Park received a boost on Friday when Anglo American Platinum donated a Bat Hawk light aircraft to the park. Anglo’s executive head of projects, Prakashim Moodliar, said in a statement that the aircraft donated to Kruger National Park has been assisting SANParks with rhino dehorning work, research, and aerial visible policing, among other…
South African light sports aircraft manufacturer Bat Hawk Aircraft has credited South Africa’s membership of the Brics group as helping it win a major export order. Brics is the acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The company is based in Nelspruit in Mpumalanga province.
HOW THE TREADRIGHT BAT HAWK PATROLS THE SHAMWARI GAME RESERVE By Lucille Sive Lion World Travel has partnered with the Shamwari Game Reserve to provide a key tool in Shamwari’s fight against rhino poaching. The plight of South Africa’s rhinos is something near to my heart. In the last four years alone poaching has destroyed an estimated 12 per cent…
Today our new Bat Hawk ZU-IUS, named Ikaneng, arrived in Pilanesberg. Thank you Terry Pappas for getting her ready in record time. Your work is amazing. Thanks also for the discount you give to conservation. The Bat Hawk is sponsored by the Copehagen Zoo, Schopper Carts and the Pilanesberg National Park & Wildlife Trust.We sold our old one, Mofalodi a week…
PROJECT TYPE: ANTI-POACHING PROJECT GALLERY Elephant poaching in the greater Niassa National Reserve in Mozambique is at an all-time high, with an elephant poaching in the greater Niassa National Reserve in Mozambique is at an all-time high, with an average of two elephants lost each day to poachers. There are over 35,000 people living within the reserve – a unique…
The new South African Bat Hawk has been designed and developed by Micro Aviation South Africa primarily for surveillance and is the most affordable light sport aircraft on the market.
The Bat Hawk, a conventional 3-axis light sport aircraft LSA, the most affordable light sport aircraft on the market, is supplied as a complete ready to fly aircraft. The aircraft complies with the ASTM2245 Build Standard rules and regulations as well as South African Civil Aviation Type Approval.
