The InvestEGGator | GPS equipped decoy eggs
The illegal wildlife trade is valued at between eight and 26.5 billion US dollars annually, making it the fourth biggest illegal trade in the world. Many different strategies have been adopted to disrupt supply chains, and one of the most innovative that we’ve seen for a long while is a project by group of scientists who use decoy eggs to tackle the illegal trade of endangered sea turtles in Central America. The research project is a collaboration between scientists at the University of Kent and conservation organisation Paso Pacifico. In Central America turtle eggs are poached from beaches and sold as a delicacy. When thinking how to track where the stolen eggs were being taken, researchers came up with the idea of dummy eggs fitted with transmitters…
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