Poachers hacking animal tracking data

[Catherine]

Poachers just keep finding ways to be more and more despicable.

Scientists working to help species, especially newly re-introduced species, have a new problem.
Poachers are hacking into the data from tracking collars to hunt the animals down.
There is actually a number of ways the data is being misused.

http://www.cbc.ca/1.3972929


The people involved in the shark project must have been horrified. Anyone who is studying animals does so to protect them.
Scientists are going to have to become more clever than the poachers. Maybe they need false signals to throw the poachers off or lead them in circles.
The poachers become clever, the good guys will have to be more clever.