The search engine Google has committed itself to helping the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) develop technologies to advance anti-poaching efforts, by investing $5m into the organization as part of Google’s 2012 Global Impact Awards program, a fund which awards $23m to seven non-profit organizations that are “changing the world”.
The Google funding will enable WWF to expand its drone program in Asia and Africa.
Other organizations recieving investments from Google’s Impact fund are: charity: water, Consortium for the Barcode of Life, DonorsChoose.org, Equal Opportunity Schools, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and GiveDirectly.