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Text-Messaging Elephants

Smartcard-equipped collars track pachyderms

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  • Sept. 26: Kimani, a huge bull elephant, can be seen with his collar containing a SIM card in the Ol Pejeta conservancy near Mt. Kenya. Save the Elephants has set up a project where they placed a mobile-phone SIM card in an elephant's collar, then set up a virtual 'geofence' using a global positioning system that mirrored the conservatory's boundaries.
  • Sept. 26: Kimani faces the camera in the Ol Pejeta conservancy near Mt. Kenya.
  • Sept. 26: Ranger Richard Lesowapir looks on as an elephant passes by in the Ol Pejeta conservancy near Mt. Kenya.
  • Sept. 25: Richard Lesowapir from Save the Elephants uses a radio transmitter to locate Kimani, a huge bull elephant, in the Ol Pejeta conservancy near Mt. Kenya.
  • Sept. 25: Ranger Richard Lesowapir show a text message warning him that an elephant is about to break out of the Ol Pejeta conservancy's fence.
  • Sept. 26: A man on a motorbike waits for an elephant to cross the road 2008 in the Ol Pejeta conservancy near Mt. Kenya.

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