All joking aside, this is an excellent example of using simple technology to protect both wildlife and people who rely on agriculture to survive. Of course, it's only a matter of time before the elephants will want their own MySpace pages.There are no boundaries to technology these days, and as strange as it may sound, even elephants heard of text messaging. It's true, elephants in Kenya are the first among their kind to send text messages to rangers, oddly enough, to announce them they are heading for villagers' crops.
The method of implementing a SIM Card into the elephants' collars was meant as an alternative to shooting the animals in order to stop them from destroying the crops that farmers highly depend on in Kenya.
The SIM-equipped collars work like a GPS system, warning the rangers every time an animal heads for any of the crops. This way, people and elephants can make peace: Villagers will no longer lose their crops, and elephants will not longer have to be shot.
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