GPS Tracking Collars and Geo-fences GPS (global positioning system) tracking collars are a highly accurate satellite-based navigation and location system that are fitted onto elephants to monitor their movements in real-time across landscapes.
Save the Elephants (STE) use GPS-tracking equipment to understand elephant lives, decisions and needs. STE founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton was the first to track elephants using radio collars (1995) and STE remains at the forefront of tracking technology. Collars contain advanced GPS satellite tracking devices that allow scientists and wildlife rangers to monitor, in real time, when and where individual animals are moving across the landscape. As a migratory species, elephants spend most of their time outside protected areas, meaning some are most likely to either cross through or near villages and farms. Increase in human population has prompted the development of human settlements and roads that completely block or restrict passage through important wildlife migratory routes (Okello and Kiringe, 2004).
Collaring elephants attempts to mitigate conflict and ensures safety of both people and elephants. Bull elephant called Wide Satao with a fitted collar © Naiya Raja/Save the Elephants Read more on: -Tracking - Real Time Monitoring. (2022, March 11). Save the Elephants.
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Watch: War of Space | Human/Elephant Conflict in the Maasai Mara. (2022, May 16).
Kenya uses satellite-linked GPS collars to protect elephants, people. (2016, September 9). Save the Elephants.