Text Messages
technology helping to track elephants in the African jungle

Text messaging technology is being used to help track and save Kenya's elephant population.

Wild elephants are tranquilised and fitted with a collar which contains automated mobile phone text messaging technology which transmits accurate information about the animals location.

This tracking method is made possible due to the massive growth in mobile telephone usage in Africa which means that, even in the depth of the wilderness, it is possible to make and receive mobile telephone calls.

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