STORY: Wildlife veterinarians and rangers at the Maasai Mara National Reserve are fitting 25 giraffes with GPS tracking units. It's part of an ongoing effort to understand and protect Kenya's ...

Tracking units on the shell of a wood turtle. The tracking information these GPS units collect is used to understand how wood turtles move throughout the year. Image credit: Smithsonian's Movement of ...

Animal welfare on huge rangelands is a challenge. Researchers are collaborating to find ways to help ranchers better manage livestock and improve animal welfare. Researchers in Australia are very ...

Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity. Yet researchers ...

Among the many tools that experts are using to keep track of animals that are protected by conservation laws are GPS tracking devices. These allow experts to keep tabs on animals’ movement patterns ...

Animals wearing new tagging and tracking devices give a real-time look at their behavior and at the environmental health of the planet, say research associates at the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...

Radio trackers have become an important part of studying the movements of wildlife, but keeping one running for the life of an animal has been challenging. Researchers have now developed a way to let ...

A report published in the Conservation Biology magazine cites several incidents gathered from all over the world in the past years, where technologies introduced to simplify the work of animal ...

Researchers have been dreaming of an Internet of Animals. They’re getting closer to monitoring 100,000 creatures—and revealing hidden facets of our shared world. There was something strange about the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A South Carolina city is now testing out GPS technology to track waste left on city streets by carriage horses and mules. News outlets report Charleston has relied for years on ...

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