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Animals News tagged with GPS

Gps To Track Blue Sheep And Snow Leopard
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, GPS, snow leopards, blue sheep, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 29 days ago - voxy.co.nz
Scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard in Nepal by venturing into the remote Himalayas to study its main prey, the Bharal or blue sheep.
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Bear Trackers Use GPS in Bid to Preserve the Animals
Animals  (tags: Bears, trackers, GPS, collar, Florida researchers', high-tech efforts, low-tech tool: day-old doughnuts, researchers, technology, habitat loss )

Rosemary
- 88 days ago - cnn.com
Researchers use the doughnuts and other stale pastries to bait traps for the bears. Once snared, the bears are tranquilized and then fitted with a GPS collar. Using cell phone technology, every 15 minutes the collar sends a text message that tells Cont..
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Farne Puffins to Be Tracked By GPS to Find Why They Are Declining So Fast
Animals  (tags: animals, puffins, GPS, declining numbers, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 156 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
New research will aim to explain why puffin numbers have fallen so dramatically on the Farne Islands in the last five years by using GPS technology to track their movements.
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GPS Minimizes Animal-Human Conflict in Africa
Animals  (tags: animals, gps, human-animal conflict, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 214 days ago - pcworld.idg.com.au
The Africa Wildlife Foundation has devised a way to use GPS technology to curb rising conflict between wild animals and humans as well as tackle an ongoing problem with poachers.
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Roadkill GPS Navigation System to Protect Animals
Animals  (tags: roadkill, GPS, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 268 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Satellites can now warn Australian drivers to slow down in roadkill-prone areas, in a bid to stem the deaths of some 300,000 wild animals on the island of Tasmania each year.
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GPS Collar Tracking Secretive Jaguar's Movements
Animals  (tags: jaguars, GPS, tracking, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 278 days ago - ktar.com
Beautiful, elusive and secretive, the sleek jaguar has been a ghostlike presence in Arizona, captured only on environmentalists' tracking cameras over the past dozen years. Until now.
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New Program Tracks Bears With Collars
Animals  (tags: black bears, collared, GPS, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, habitat, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 556 days ago - fortmcmurraytoday.com
Bears in the Fort McMurray area may be seen wearing collars this summer, but they're no one's pets. In response to growing concerns of black bear sightings and conflicts around the city, local Fish and Wildlife officials have turned to the latest
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WCS Tracks Asia's Odd-Ball Antelope
Animals  (tags: saiga, GPS, Mongolia, gravely threatened, WCS, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 578 days ago - wcs.org
Scientists determined to save Mongolia's gravely threatened saiga antelope have fitted eight of the unusual ungulates with high-tech GPS (Global Positioning System) collars. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) led the tracking efforts in the
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Rare Cheetahs Get Big-Cat Bling
Animals  (tags: asiatic cheetahs, Iran, animals, AnimalWelfare, GPS, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 583 days ago - wcs.org
Two Asiatic cheetahs received newfangled necklaces from an international team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) working in Iran. The big cat "bling"--also known as Global Positioning System (GPS) collars--will track the movements
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Endangered Zebra Life Caught on GPS
Animals  (tags: zebras, GPS, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 590 days ago - cnn.com
If you were a zebra, how would you spend your days? Daniel Rubenstein, director of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, has been pursuing this question for years.
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Satellite Collar That Dropped Off Snow Leopard's Neck Recovered
Animals  (tags: snow leopards, GPS, collar, recovered, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 591 days ago - dailytimes.com.pk
Researchers have found a satellite collar, which dropped off the neck of a snow leopard in Chitral district in January this year, Daily Times learnt on Tuesday.
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Counting Wolves
Animals  (tags: wolves, GPS, study population, animals, AnimalWelfare, protection, environment, habitat, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 626 days ago - popsci.com
Researchers use a range of digital technologies in the field to study animal populations. GPS collars and tags track range and migration; motion-sensitive cameras snap candid photos; pre-recorded calls and songs attract individuals so the scientists can
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On Trail of Snow Leopard: Researchers Trying to Retrieve GPS Attached to Snow Leopard
Animals  (tags: snow leopards, GPS, animals, AnimalWelfare, protection, environment, habitat, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 633 days ago - dailytimes.com.pk
Researchers working to retrieve a global positioning system (GPS), which contains a record of the movements of a snow leopard in the mountains of Chitral district, are hopeful of its recovery within days, as the snowline is receding with the arrival of
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Irwins Offer Help to Save Tigers
Animals  (tags: tigers, Irwins, GPS, conservation center, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, endangered, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 649 days ago - thejakartapost.com
Irwin presented an operational car to the Forestry Ministry in Jakarta on Friday, while the Australia Zoo also provided infrastructure and equipment for the Sumatran tiger conservation center including GPS satellite and tracking equipment.
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Hi-Tech Bird Tracker Breakthrough
Animals  (tags: birds, wireless sensors, GPS, researchers, Manx Shearwaters, animals, AnimalWelfare, protection, wildlife, environment )

Cher
- 653 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
New technology which can monitor how animals respond to change in their environment has been developed on an island off the Pembrokeshire Coast. A system of wireless sensors and GPS tracking is giving researchers a better understanding of the behaviour of
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