The Age
Elephants to be digitally tracked
By Our Correspondence

New Delhi: Oct 9: Captive elephants in the city have gone hi-tech with an elephant electronic   card tracking the animals’ movements to prevent their trafficking,

The Delhi Wildlife department has initiated a project to micro-chip all the captive elephants in the city, so far 27 out of the captive jumbos have been micro-chipped      with the help of an NGO Wildlife SOS.

“ The Micro chipping of the remaining four will completed in a week’s time it will be prevent the owners from buying  any claves illegally ,” Kartick Satyanarayan  of Wildlife SOS said. Micro-chipping is process of identification and tagging of animals having a transponder with a unique ID number. The micro chipped animal can be easily tracked with reader, a special scanning instrument.

“There has been a rise in the case of tracking among captive elephants and micro-chipping will develop a networking to check such practices,” he said.