Rhino GPS Used To Deter Poachers

As good as GPS tracking, the device is versed with warning systems to inform diversion wardens of out of the ordinary transformation or if a rhino is outward of the park.

The North West Park Board is contrast the gadgets in Mafikeng Game Reserve.

The house began this novel plan in April of this year, when they tested the chips.

Park vets carried out the initial implants the network is right away "up and running" - all the time monitoring the 5 animals.

"It's in essence a heavenly body network that connects with the unit phone network and you can guard the animals on whatever time check you want," Rusty Hustler, head of safety for North West Parks Board, told BBC News.

"There are a number of alarms that may be programmed: a for extreme movement, so if the rhino starts running, and other that goes off if the rhino sleeps for longer than 6 hours, that is abnormal."

An warning moreover sounds if the fragment goes outward of the area of the diversion reserve.

A greeting group in the playing field would be able to follow and rapidly attain the animal if an warning went off.

More than 200 rhinos had been slaughtered in South Africa given the beginning of the year and there is a high urge for rhino horn, a treasured part in normal Chinese medicine.

Mr Hustler mentioned that the house was seeking to use the gadgets in animals in other North West state parks and were formulation to label more animals in the forthcoming weeks.

He updated that in the future, the gadgets could even help to follow rhino horns that were taken by poachers to help war the unlawful trade.