 So I met John for the first time in the middle of nowhere in Tanzania We were both participating to a field work in the River Mara Delta Yeah, so Paolo and I met in the field And we're traveling long days There we are an expert in dragonflies and an expert in drones and We spent a lot of days together traveling in very uncomfortable cars and roads We actually spent more time in the field than anyone else and I watched Paolo take video footage in the field and then all of a sudden one day He was watching me taking a footage with a drone and then it sort of clicked and I thought well, why not? take videos Using drones of dragonflies. Yeah, we decided okay. Why not using the drones to collect dragonflies data in Innovative ways. I mean why not reaching places which would be not accessible Not only Would the drones allow us to go to places that that we can't walk to But we can also do repeatable surveys at the same spots over time So we can get this information on not only on of course the changes of the species that are there But also of the landscape, which is what the other thing that drones are being used for And then we started elaborating a little more more and more on this idea And we came out with a project proposal that we hope we can implement and make a difference We are looking for funds which We believe are not really the target of the traditional Drones in science and this is because we we bring two completely different fields together one which is more Logical and maybe more appealing to IT people and the other one which is more on the ecological side so For the reason that we also use Advanced technology in terms of facial recognition, which is more used in social media and And more traditional field methods in ecology. We believe that Just more curious people which could be like the people like you listening to this video Could help us to kickstart