Metal detectors detect poachers

On the trails of rare animals that pass by, sooner or later, people will bury a sensor capable of detecting metal, helping to identify poachers' weapons and informing the agency. conserve.

Rare animals will be tracked along the way. (Wildlifehotspots) This system called TrailGuard will soon be installed and tested in Nouabale-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo. The device will also significantly reduce the useless deaths of African elephants, snow leopard in Russia, giant turtles in the Galapagos Islands, jaguars and grasslands in Costa Rica.

The product was invented by inventor Steve Gulick, from New York State University.

For successful installation, indigenous knowledge is needed about the way animals travel and burying about a dozen sensors 25 cm along these roads.

Sensors are capable of detecting metal 3 meters away. It will send radio signals to an area to determine whether the metal is in the forest guards' guns or someone else's. Meanwhile, the security team also carries a transceiver, which will respond to this radio signal with a coded signal with a certain number. When the sensors buried in the ground receive the permission code, it will not react any more. But if the device does not receive the answer code, it will issue a warning message.

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