Kenya’s elephants send text messages to rangers
Well, no, the elephants themselves aren’t texting — as that would require opposable thumbs, or at least fingers, or a really really big keyboard — but some of them have radio collars with SIM cards. And when one of them decides head over to raid a farmer’s crops, the mobile phone card sends rangers a text message. The rangers mobilize and scare the elephant away, averting disaster for the farmer. And possibly for the elephant.
An interesting and creative way of using technology pro-actively for conservation.
This is really great. A social media tool to keep the elephants safe. Even though I think this is a tool that was made for the benefit of the farmers and not the elephants directly, but knowing that elephants will be safer that’s wonderful news!
Woo, that is really interesting. But I am wondering that are they going to euip every elephant with a tool like that? If it is so, it might be costy.
I think the article said the SIM card is attached to the elephants that do the most destruction. So no, not every elephant is plugged in.