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# Drones Are Saving Hundreds of Fawns
- URL: https://goodnewsdailytv.com/2026-08-02-bonus-animal-drones-are-saving-hundreds-of-fawns/
- Published: 2026-08-02T15:01:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-02T15:01:46.000Z
- Description: A Bavarian volunteer group used to search meadows on foot for fawns hiding from mowers — finding just 10-15 a year. After adding thermal-imaging drones, they now save 300-350 fawns every single year.
- Author: Good News Daily
- Tags: Inspirational Profile

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Every spring, thousands of fawns are killed by mowing machines across Germany — because their only instinct when they're scared is to freeze, not run. This year, drones are the reason hundreds of them didn't die.

A Bavarian volunteer group called Rehkitz-Rettung Mangfalltal used to search meadows on foot, walking shoulder to shoulder across entire fields. It worked, but it was slow — they were only finding ten to fifteen fawns a year.

Then they added thermal-imaging drones. Flying eighty to a hundred meters up, the drones spot a fawn's body heat hidden in the grass before the mower ever gets close.

The rescues didn't just improve. They multiplied — to between three hundred and three hundred fifty fawns saved every single year.

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**Sources:** [goodnewsnetwork.org](https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/drones-are-saving-hundreds-of-fawns-from-mower-deaths-in-germany-watch/?ref=goodnewsdailytv.com) · [dronedj.com](https://dronedj.com/2026/06/22/dji-drone-baby-deer-rescue/?ref=goodnewsdailytv.com)

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