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Now buried sensors to identify weapons and nab poachers

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Despite various measures to control poaching across the world, the illegal, animal skin-and-bones markets are still booming. And, the result – many animal species are being pushed to the brink of extinction. Be it for political pressures or inefficiencies of the securities to nab the poachers, they are failing to track poaching down on average.

So, engineers have come up with an innovative idea to alert authorities of potential poachers, but also identify weapons! With a hope to significantly reduce the death rates of African elephants and Russian snow leopards, the ‘TrailGuard system,’ has been designed. Thanks to Steve Gulick, an electrical engineer and the inventor of the system.

The new metal-detecting sensor can be buried alongside oft-used trails. To nab the poachers, a dozen 10-inch sensors will be buried along their poaching routes, using local knowledge about them.

The sensor will soon be installed in the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo. Hope it will also be the savior of the giant tortoises in the Galapagos Islands, and the poachers’ favorite, the Costa Rican jaguars and peccaries.

Once successful there, and if used in the major poaching zones of forest reserves across the world, it would surely help authorities save the endangered species from unnecessary and merciless killing by the poachers – if can be kept from the reaches of political interferences.

Photo: discovery.com

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