Vehiclepath

We humans keep finding more reasons to keep track of animals. Lately, GPS fleet tracking technology has been put to use to help us co-exist better with moose, kangaroos and crocodiles. While GPS tracking does a great job of monitoring vehicles on the road, it also is useful for preventing us from hitting animals on the road. Here’s how:

• Moose: With many people are moving to Montana, new homes and other developments have encroached into the habitat previously occupied by moose and deer. So Fish, Wildlife and Parks managers are using data from GPS tracking collars to create maps that “identify which ranges and corridors require the most strenuous protection and what potential conflicts will result from development.”
• Kangaroos: In the Australian Capital Territory, government ecologists are fitting GPS collars on kangaroos across the region’s urban areas to better understand their movements. It’s believed to be the first time in Australia that large, wild animals have been tracked in an urban environment. The data collected could be used to help plan kangaroo population-control programs.
• Crocodiles: Bhitarkanika National Park wildlife rangers just completed a croc census with the help of GPS tracking collars. Tourists were kept out the park during the weeklong process. Almost 1,500 crocodiles were counted during the census. No word on if any lost tourists were inadvertently counted ;).

We’ll continue to report here about how GPS fleet tracking is being used in the animal kingdom. However, we still excel at tracking (to borrow a 50-year-old phrase still in use at the Adventureland ride at Disneyland, “the American road hog.”

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Filed under: Animal Tracking, GPS fleet tracking by Glenn