The EU Biodiversity Strategy contains concrete objectives to protect and restore biodiversity and to address the main pressures and threats to biodiversity. In order to reach them, basic research is required to better understand, monitor, observe and manage biodiversity, including in protected areas. Such knowledge is also indispensable to support the protection and restoration of natural capital and ecosystems.

The Rhisotope Project takes a very different approach by using elements of nuclear security, radiation protection, medical physics, and other related nuclear science techniques to address the problem of Rhino poaching.