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Various of newborn elephant with its mother and family2. Close up mother's face3. Various of elephants in game reserve4. Various of elephant jawbones and skull5. Close up elephant's face, pull out6....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSamburu, Kenya - 23-26 October 2005\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of newborn elephant with its mother and family\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up mother's face\u003cbr/\u003e3. Various of elephants in game reserve\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various of elephant jawbones and skull\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up elephant's face, pull out\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Save the Elephants founder \"What we are seeing...\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Tracking collars looped over tree stump\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up of same\u003cbr/\u003e9. Collar framing elephant in distance\u003cbr/\u003e10. Save the Elephants logo on computer screen\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of Douglas-Hamilton at computer \u003cbr/\u003e12. Various close ups of computer screen showing elephant tracking\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Save the Elephants founder \"My worry is...\" \u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of elephants on riverbank\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) David Deballen, Save the Elephants, Samburu \"You can download...\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. David walking to headquarters\u003cbr/\u003e17. David looking at map on computer\u003cbr/\u003e18. Elephant in the bush\u003cbr/\u003e19. Various of giraffe eating tree\u003cbr/\u003e20. Samburu walking\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (English) Sumaro Lecharkole, Samburu tribesman \"Samburu still believe...\" \u003cbr/\u003e22. Vans parked near leopard \u003cbr/\u003e23. Close up leopard sitting on the ground\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various of hippopotamus in river\u003cbr/\u003e25. Various of elephants\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Joseph, CEO, Safaricom \"If the elephant....\"\u003cbr/\u003e27. Various of lion\u003cbr/\u003e28. Various of leopard in tree\u003cbr/\u003e29. Crocodile on riverbank\u003cbr/\u003e30. Elephant wearing mobile phone collar\u003cbr/\u003e31. Elephant on river bank \u003cbr/\u003e32. SOUNDBITE (English) OVERLAID Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Save the Elephants founder \"The future both for people...\"\u003cbr/\u003e33. Elephant herd on river bank\u003cbr/\u003eResearchers in Kenya and South Africa are using mobile phone technology to gather information on elephants, cheetahs, leopards and other wildlife.\u003cbr/\u003eA relatively cheap tracking device includes a no-frills mobile phone that sends a text message with the latest GPS coordinates which are mapped on the Internet.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Kenya, the results are giving researchers insights into elephant movement and behaviour that will help reduce conflict with humans.\u003cbr/\u003eA newborn elephant stays close to its mother in the Samburu national park in northern Kenya.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the years to come, researchers will be able to find where the three-day-old and her family are at the click of a mouse.\u003cbr/\u003eThat's because her mother is wearing a collar that every hour sends a text message with its GPS coordinates which are mapped on the Internet.\u003cbr/\u003eThe data is giving researchers an insight into what is going on between elephants and their habitats - and man.\u003cbr/\u003eBefore the international ban on ivory in 1989, the Kenyan elephant was on the verge of extinction.\u003cbr/\u003eNow it is competing with humans for space -- moving into populated areas, raiding crops and injuring people.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"What we are seeing is that elephants are losing their range and in order to reduce conflict we have to know about their movements and their needs. That we are getting from the radio tracking.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Save the Elephants\u003cbr/\u003eThe device includes a no-frills mobile phone and GPS receiver, fitted to a collar around the elephant's neck.\u003cbr/\u003eEvery hour the phone \"wakes up\" and sends a text message with the GPS coordinates of the elephant's location.\u003cbr/\u003eThat information is mapped on the Save the Elephants website.\u003cbr/\u003eThe results have thrown up some surprises about the habits and migration of Earth's largest land animals.\u003cbr/\u003eThe main one is that there are crucial corridors that need to be left open so that elephants can reach their feeding grounds.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"My worry is if we cut all the corridors of the elephants we are going to end up with a really unstable ecological situation. Because elephants need space and we need to understand their movements and if we understand their movements, their needs, then we can devise a conservation plan. Sometimes to protect a little corridor is a much more economic way of going about things than to put up a fence and to concentrate the elephants just on one side.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Save the Elephants\u003cbr/\u003eSamburu national park is home to some five-thousand elephants.\u003cbr/\u003eAbout 30 of them have been fitted with the text message collars.\u003cbr/\u003eThe system has halved the costs of tracking the pachyderms and made life easier for researchers.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"You can download these collars through the internet so you don't need to go all the way to Nairobi, you can download from our camp. So that is one big relief. You don't need to circle in the plane, you don't need to travel you just go need to hook yourself into the internet and get one year of data.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: David Deballen, Senior Assistant Researcher, Save The Elephants \u003cbr/\u003eOver several months, a huge network of elephant trails through northern Kenya have been discovered. \u003cbr/\u003eEstablishing these jumbo \"rights of way\" between new elephant sanctuaries could help avert culling and relocation.\u003cbr/\u003eSave the Elephants wants the sanctuaries to be run by local communities where they can benefit from the elephants and other wildlife.\u003cbr/\u003eThat means jobs for Samburu tribesmen like Sumaro Lecharkole who is now an \"elephant expert.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Samburu still believe the elephants are still part of their livestock and still have that strong belief that we can help them to make their watering points and make their corridors.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Sumaro Lecharkole, Samburu tribesman and elephant researcher\u003cbr/\u003eThe research has been made possible because the African bush is no longer as remote as it used to be. \u003cbr/\u003eThe massive growth in mobile phone usage in Africa means, even in the depths of the wilderness, it is possible to make and receive mobile telephone calls. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd where there ARE blackspots, the elephant data isn't lost. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"If the elephant has been out of range for a long time, those coordinates are stored on the system and then they send all the coordinates in an SMS format to a server which means the elephant can be tracked in real time.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Mr. Michael Joseph the CEO of Sarcoma \u003cbr/\u003eThe technology is in its infancy.\u003cbr/\u003eBut already, smaller and lighter collars are being developed for lions, the endangered Grevy's zebra, cheetahs and leopards.\u003cbr/\u003ePerhaps someone will be brave enough to fit one on a crocodile.\u003cbr/\u003eOne day, the tracking system could be used to text or email a warning to crop farmers of an approaching elephant.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Kenyan elephants' survival remains precarious. \u003cbr/\u003eTheir future may depend on technology that helps man and beast live together.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The future both for people and for wildlife is actually to coexist and find means whereby people can benefit from the wildlife and that is actually happening in northern Kenya today.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Save the Elephants\u003cbr/\u003eOn the Net:\u003cbr/\u003eSave The Elephants tracking \u003ca href='http://www.savetheelephants.org/track.htm' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'\u003eproject\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr/\u003eUniversity of Pretoria's Centre for Wildlife \u003ca href='http://www.wildlife.' target='_blank' 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