00:00I'm on Abaco Island in the Bahamas about 200 miles east of Miami. Hurricane
00:09Dorian pretty much wiped out a bulk of Abaco Island.
00:17It lasted for about 40 hours.
00:22Nobody knows how many people died. Some estimates are in the hundreds and this
00:31has been a disaster for animals too. Many lost their homes and families and even
00:39more were stray to begin with. All these animals have been living off of whatever
00:44food and water they can find. This island has thousands of injured and starving
00:51animals. I've been in the Bahamas for about two weeks working off the Sea
00:59Shepherd delivering food water and medical supplies. While I'm here I'm
01:07using the drone to rescue animals. My passion is environmental activism and
01:14saving wild places for animals so I'm out here because of my love for animals.
01:20I've been flying drones ever since they first came out. I had the skills to
01:25navigate a drone through a disaster area so it was a natural fit for me to come
01:30out here and volunteer to save these animals.
01:33Taking off.
01:44This isn't like the drones you can buy at the mall. It has an infrared camera
01:51that lets me see the animals body temperature. The same area takes hours to
01:59search on foot. I can fly in minutes.
02:05The colors on display can almost be distracting. I look for movement and
02:10patterns. Actually there's a one, two, maybe three dogs there.
02:19You can see his body moving around.
02:25And then I can switch to this camera, my zoom camera.
02:33So yeah there's a red pit, there's a black one. I've got the GPS coordinates
02:41so we can find right where they are.
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