seven of the females we strapped g.p.s. collars onto so that we can get near real time movements of the animals tracking those movements with the g.p.s. collars is julio brockman a bison researcher at southern illinois university. what kind of data are you receiving so we're getting location information a g.p.s. point on a map every hour twenty four hours a day so can you show me what you've been seeing sure these are the bison locations for yesterday they seem to be spending a lot of time along their corral and trap pasture and i can corroborate that because we were there and we saw them there so what would you say is the ultimate goal of your study having an amount of data really changes how we look at their movements and their selection it helps to understand what type of habitat they're like for reintroductions in the future. among the two dozen scientists doing research at the choose is dr holly jones a conservation biologist at northern illinois university with her team she's traveling in tagging small mammals to assess the i

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from just four in two thousand and ten and two thousand and fourteen researchers began fitting g.p.s. collars on elephants in myanmar to track the population within three years the butchered carcasses of five adult males were found two other collars stopped transmitting conservationists have noticed a marked increase in online advertising in sales of elephants can products especially in china that cox is the conservation director for the world wildlife fund and me and maher uses only elephants and me and maher are being poached for their skin. like in africa and across asia elephants have been poached for many many years but i think that the situation in manama especially in decades of conflict and civil unrest have created the conditions that have allowed some of the criminal networks that are involved in all kinds of illegal crime including our life crimes it to take advantage of the. fact that lauren foresman has been quite weak and elephants are found in areas that aren't protected areas has made it relatively easy for poor and the poachers to take advantage and it's unique in mammals tha

year a sharp increase on just four in twenty ten in twenty fifteen researchers began fitting g.p.s. collars to elephants in myanmar to track the population within two years the butchered carcasses of five adult males were found two more stopped transmitting at the same time conservationists noticed a growing online marketplace for elephant skin products especially in china where it's used in medicine or made into jury and it cox is the conservation director of the world wildlife fund in maine my joins us live from yangon on skype so it's such a terrible story why do you think that these elephants are particular at risk in myanmar. well thanks for having me on the program and yeah it's a rather gruesome story that's playing out here ma'am of the moment. but just you know like in africa and across asia elephants have been poached for many many years but i think that the situation in manama especially to decades of conflict and civil unrest have created the conditions that have allowed some of the criminal networks that are involved in all kinds of illegal crime including crimes it to take adv

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