Conservation Tags To Track Animals Are Being Hijacked By Poachers
The discipline of preservation and wildlife enquiry has been revolutionized in late years by the development of lightweight , long lasting , and reliable tracking devices that can be bond to wild creature . Biologists now have unprecedented insight into the raw history and behaviors of animals that was unthinkable 20 years ago . But it seems that there may bea more sinister sideto this technology . A newfangled paper published inConservation Biologyhas warned of “ cyber - poaching ” , in which poachers and hunter are tap into the radio signals of tag creature , and using it to traverse their quarry ....