These unmanned aerial vehicles are also an important resource for the forest officials because they let them know of any illegal activity going on in the forest without any direct encounter of the officials with the poachers or illegal tree fellers. The identification of the illegal elements can be made through the high quality and high speed cameras and forests can be saved.
Also the incidences of forest fires can be handled in a better way by using drones not only to detect but also to out the fire. Environmental Monitoring Research Drones are being extensively developed to be used to monitor the changes in the environment in places that are either not safe for humans to venture or are too difficult to reach.