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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Also the Lion has a GPS on him. Should it beep or something if it leaves the no-kill zone? Or when it walked around for 40 hours with an arrow in him, should it notify someone?
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As I understand it, these are monitors that need to be collected, they have battery life of less than a year usually. Which is also part of the legal issues by the poachers since they threw this collar away, obviously aware that this was illegal to do.
The GPS types that could offer more information, are very costly, thus are not commonly used.
http://www.lionconservation.org/lion-collars.html
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GPS collars rely on the following elements:
Specialised, very tough belting material and electronics housing made from advanced plastics and epoxy.
A Lithium-ion battery pack, designed to last for at least 18 months, operating continuously.
A Global Positioning System (GPS) unit that calculates the exact hourly location of the collar, every hour of the night.
A memory that stores the location information on the collar.
An Iridium satellite transceiver that is used to send or receive data.
A VHF radio “beacon” that emits a radio pulse, for use with traditional telemetry equipment.
A dedicated server that receives data from the collar in the form of text messages, and translates them into an email format.
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Sounds like we need to be doing some fund raising
