Although it’s viewed as unsportsmanlike for hunters to bait their prey, conservation officers in Canada are using the technique to combat the issue of poaching Nanaimo’s urban deer.

Poaching is illegal, cruel, and is of course, extremely dangerous to the public, as poachers roam wooded areas, and public parks shooting cross bolts, and arrows at the animals.

The Bait Deer program is similar in many ways to the police Bait Car program that catches car thieves, and is proving to be an efficient disincentive to poachers killing deer in the area. Instead of hiding cameras to determine the identity of the poachers, the deer are captured by conservation officers, tranquilized, and implanted with a GPS tracking device. Read the rest of this entry »

Meal delivery companies offer valuable services to the communities you serve. Whether you are delivering food for one restaurant, multiple restaurants, or your delivering meals for families to prepare at home, there are several ways that GPS tracking can benefit your business, including these listed below.

Accurate Deliveries

This is extremely important for food deliveries that are time sensitive – especially on busy delivery nights. GPS fleet tracking can help ensure all deliveries arrive at the correct destinations — and that they arrive on time. Read the rest of this entry »

The largest land crab in the world, the coconut crab (Birgus latro), can weigh in excess of nearly nine pounds, and can span as wide as one yard (or 36 inches) across. Once commonly found throughout various tropical Indo-Pacific islands, numbers are rapidly declining due to habitat destruction, and overhunting.

The crab, that was placed on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species back in 1981, is still poorly understood in terms of its basic ecology. This is as a result of a deficit in monitoring and research, and is now something being worked on by a team of researchers.

The team who have travelled to Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, hopes to ascertain the answers to questions such as: Read the rest of this entry »

Napa Valley Touring companies have much to gain from incorporating GPS fleet tracking into all of their touring activities. People go to Napa Valley for many reasons – most of them focused on the rich tradition of winemaking in the region, though some come for the experience and the scenery. Regardless of why they come, tourists bring a lot of money into the region and touring companies all want your fair share.

What if you could improve your profits without increasing your prices?

That could give you a real leg up, profit-wise, over your competitors. This extra money could be used to re-invest in your business and make it grow bigger, better, faster, and more than you can imagine at the moment. These are just a few great ways your Napa Valley wine tour, wine delivery, airport shuttle, or food delivery business can take your GPS tracking savings to the bank. Read the rest of this entry »

During a rut, numerous hunters have spent many hours in a tree stand simply to only see one or two deer. Have you spent time hunting during rut season only to see a single deer before and are wondering why this scenario happening and? Don’t you want to know where that buck came from or why he’s there in the first place? For the serious hunter, these questions are very perplexing.

It’s common knowledge to the experienced hunter that during a rut, deer movements can go from extreme to suddenly stopping altogether. Hunters call these sudden abrupt stops of deer movements a ‘lockdown’. So what is happening here? Is there really a lockdown taken place or are hunters simply using it as an excuse for not being able to spot any deer? Read the rest of this entry »