Kenyan Farmers Rely on Text Messaging to Track Elephants
In the "old days" during harvest, villagers near the the Ol Pejeta conservancy in Kenya would bang pots and pans and wave burning sticks to ward off the invading elephants, which would easily destroy half a year's income.
Crop-destroying elephants are now a thing of the past. Elephants are fitted with a GPS collar and mobile SIM card, which sends a text message to rangers when GPS boundaries are approached. When rangers receive the SMS warning, they race to the site and drive away the elephants.
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