Swiss farmers use drones to find sheltering fawns, to save them from equipment harm

A doe is seen on the control screen of the thermal drone of the Fondation Sauvetage Faons Vaud, while looking for fawns in a meadow before it is cut by a farmer, in Forel, near Lausanne, Switzerland, June 5, 2024. — Reuters

FOREL, Switzerland: In the lush fields of the Swiss town of Forel, volunteers use drones before dawn to find fawns, or young deer, nestled beneath tall grasses, preventing farmers from inadvertently harming them with heavy agricultural machinery.

Hundreds of fawns have been killed or mutilated in Swiss agricultural fields, prompting Fondation Sauvetage Faons (the Fawn Rescue Foundation) in the Vaud canton to take action.