Animal tracking system expands across cottage country
SHARE ON: The threatened eastern whip-poor-will (Photo credit: Levi Turnbull, supplied by The Land Between)
Conservation group The Land Between is installing three new tracking towers to monitor at-risk species across cottage country. The towers are the first of many to be installed by the organization in an effort to create a monitoring “fence” across a 180-kilometre blind spot south of Algonquin Park.
The towers will be installed in Haliburton Forest, Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park, and Tory Hill, and are part of the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, which uses radio waves to continuously monitor animals across North America, South America, Europe, and Australia. Wildlife such as birds, bats, or wolves are captured, tagged with a small radio transmitter, and released back into the wild.