Trick or Treat: High-Tech Cameras ‘Scary-Effective’ in Protecting Bats
Photos texted to officers’ phones when trespassers threaten sensitive caves.
Harrisburg, PA -(AmmoLand.com)- An alert sounds through a smartphone speaker. A real-time trail-camera photo has just been sent by text message to a Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife conservation officer.
People are trespassing again at an abandoned mine site, perhaps not even realizing any breach into the mine poses a serious and potentially lethal threat to already-beleaguered cave-bat populations there. With the alert sent, the officer makes it to the mine in time to head off the trespassers.
Soon word spreads that officers seem to making appearances at the mine just about every time someone shows up there. People stop going there. And, in what are dark days for bats in Pennsylvania and throughout the eastern United States, every bat in the mine has a better chance of surviving because of it. This is a scenario that has played out – time and …Read the Rest
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