If it's good enough to nab Avon Barksdale it's good enough to catch poachers. These scientists drew inspiration from HBO's The Wire to catch marine life poachers. (From 2020).
, Baltimore cops Herc and Carver devise an unorthodox way to listen in on a drug dealer named Frog, right on the street: They shove a tiny, $1,250 microphone into a tennis ball, which they then place in a gutter. Listening in from a building across the street, they watch as Frog picks up the ball and absentmindedly tosses it between his hands, sendingand an electric screech into Herc’s headphones. Quickly over it, Frog chucks the ball over their building.
That means hawking the eggs door to door, which Pheasey and her colleagues can see in the tracking data. This data can, in turn, inform policy. “If that is the situation, then we can target demand-reduction campaigns locally,” Pheasey adds, by doing things like raising awareness among consumers about the plight of the turtles, and helping direct local law enforcement. “And so that's a useful conservation management strategy that's come out of this.
Williams-Guillen and Pheasey found that while poachers tended to sell eggs locally door to door, the InvestEGGator was also able to track long-range transport—one trip was 137 kilometers long, from the beach to central Costa Rica. Pheasey could zoom in on the tracker using Google Maps and actually pinpoint that the egg was behind a supermarket, perhaps in a loading bay or back alley.
But, she points out, “in Costa Rica, it's not illegal to purchase them—it's illegal to take them off the beach to traffic them. Which I think gave them further kind of confidence in sharing that information.”
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