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Save the Elephants NOTE Please forward any text for publication to Iain Douglas Hamilton iain africaonline com http www savetheelephants org Interview with David Gachuche Save the Elephant s web designer Studied as a geometrics engineer in Canada davidg rivercrosstech com 254 721 876820 The devices used for tracking the elephants using both to GPS and GSM technology are made by African wildlife tracking AWT and a company called Wireless in South Africa the use the same technology in car tracking devices Save the elephants were the first to track elephants and have been doing so since the Seventies but back then they were using high frequency beep transmitters The next big revolution came in 1995 when they started using satellite GPS tracking the data had to be downloaded via modem the heavy drain on battery power by getting close to the elephants either on foot by car or more frequently by plain With the introduction of GSM came the ability to transmit the data in real time improving efficiency hugely There was a significant cost savings consider the cost of flying around to collect a week s data from one elephant In areas where there are known to be human animal conflicts wildlife managers are able to act quickly they can warn people and drive the animal away it is a very useful tool for being able to reduce this conflict As we are talking David s phone vibrates in his pocket as an SMS message comes through he s tracking a colleague s vehicle and the system has just let him know that the vehicle is approaching his office Right now there is one particular elephants that is known to break fences we have rigged the software to send an SMS to the managers whenever he approaches the geo fence which is a virtual fence and can therefore react in real time we put one in January 2004 and it is still going Interview with Iain Douglas Hamilton founder of Save the Elephants iain africaonline com We have a huge need for trac ( traduction automatique ) ( montrer le texte original )

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