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12-03-2014, 12:25 AM( This post was last modified: 12-03-2014, 12:25 AM by Pckts )
(12-02-2014, 08:51 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote: Interesting articles and great pictures, BUT none of them is relevant here, because:
1. None of them show that radio collaring tigers is good/bad.
2. None of them show that camera traps serve to other purpose apart from estimate tiger density in order to create core areas to conserve them.
All these articles belong to the topic "Big Cat News", but surely not here.
They are absolutely relevant as they prove that we are able to monitor corridors, tiger individuals, families, tiger density etc. With just camera traps.
I never said Radio Collaring was good or bad, it serves a purpose, but that purpose doesn't outweigh the stress caused on the tigers. There still is nothing I have seen that can benefit a tiger through radio collaring that they can't receive through camera traps.
Collars offer no protection to a tiger, they don't prevent poachers, they don't show us a tigers movements more than a camera trap, they don't show prey or tiger density, they only give us a recent location of a individual tiger, and for what?
So human beings can go investigate it? Has nothing to do with conservation.
Eyes on or hands on? A discussion of human interference
