Find the last few, and keep them in sight.
Near eradication, the last wallabies, deer or goats are the hardest to find and the most costly to miss. ORCA searches whole blocks at once and, when an animal is found, hands it from drone to drone so it never drops out of sight before a ranger arrives.
From what your team does today, to what the fleet does for it.
The work is capped by headcount
- Hunters and dogs cover a block over days.
- A sighting is often lost before anyone can reach it.
- Survivors learn to avoid people and get harder to find.
One operator, the whole fleet
- The block is searched in one session.
- A find stays in sight until the ranger is there.
- Hunters spend their time where the animals are.
Why this job needs more than one drone.
A fleet earns its place when there’s too much ground for the time available, when coverage can’t have a gap, or when people are the limit.
The find becomes a job
One drone can’t keep searching and watch a find. A fleet does both.
Relay the watch
Drones hand the watch over in the air, so the animal is never out of sight.
Cold mornings are short
Thermal works best before sunrise. A fleet covers the block while conditions hold.
Answers your team can act on.
Not hours of footage. Each output goes straight into the systems you already use.
Who it’s for
- Pest animal programme leads
- Rangers and hunters
- Regional council biosecurity teams
ORCA finds and watches. Control stays with your rangers and hunters.
Search coverage
ArcGIS layerSearched strips and gaps, block by block.
Find and track
Images + trackEach animal found, with its track while it was watched.
Hand-over record
For the rangerWhen and where the ranger took over.
Gap register
Reasons loggedAreas not seen, such as dense bush, and why.
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See ORCA on work like yours.
Tell us about the ground you look after and where it’s hardest to cover. We’ll walk you through how a fleet would run it, and what a first trial could look like.