South African AI Collars Now on 2,000 Animals as Rhino Poaching Falls 16%

An AI-enabled tracking collar built by a South African company is now deployed on close to 2,000 animals across more than 60 of the country’s largest reserves — operational scale that puts it well ahead of most African AI deployments, which rarely graduate from pilot. Rouxcel Technology’s RhinoWatch is a solar-aided GPS foot collar with onboard abnormal behaviour detection. Founder Dr S.P le Roux established the company in 2018 to solve a specific gap in anti-poaching response.