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Here is the article that show posting of endangered animal information on social network website are misused by poachers.
A park in South Africa, put up a notice requesting tourists not to tag photographs of rhinoceroses posted to the internet with locations, because these images could help to lead poachers to the endangered animals.
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"Poachers have more information of wild animals than any tourist" - Anish Andheria, president of the Wildlife Conservation Trust. He said "We go to reserves because we love it, but poachers are dependent on it for their lives. Poachers sometimes know more about wildlife than protectors of forest."
However, experts in India remain unconvinced that this could be a serious threat to Indian reserves. The threat of cyber-poaching in the Indian context, they say, seems unlikely for now.
Even a successful attempt to hack the Wildlife Institute’s systems is unlikely to help poachers much. According to Shardul Bajikar, editor of Natural History at wildlife magazine Saevus, only eight or nine tigers in the country have been radio-tagged for monitoring. he said "It is an insignificant fraction of the overall tiger population"
Poachers could access a much bigger, current and updated information of tigers from locals and have absolutely no need whatsoever to use geotagged images, which may be from any time and date in past or hack radio collars which will help them access a small number of tigers who are being better tracked and protected best.
All three maintained that poachers rely on local sources and their own knowledge of their prey’s rhythms, not on technology, to source their information.
Geo-tagging is also not a big problem at any point, even as more of India is accessing internet through their smartphones. Tourists in India are legally permitted access to only 20% of a reserve, whereas in Africa and Australia, they have much freer access. This means that only those animals that frequent that part of the reserve are in particular danger of being photographed, let alone being tracked down days later.
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Wild animals information on public places also have bad consequences ?
