Now poachers are using Facebook and Twitter to track down rare animals: Gangs scour social media for geo-tagged photos then use co-ordinates to find wildlife

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Now poachers are using Facebook and Twitter to track down rare animals: Gangs scour social media for geo-tagged photos then use co-ordinates to find wildlife [1]

Poachers are using photographs taken by safari tourists to hunt down and kill incredibly rare lions, tigers and elephants by downloading digital data attached to the images revealing the exact loca

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08/04/2015

Source: Daily Mail (United Kingdom) [2]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/daily-mail-united-kingdom
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poaching
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/illegal-trade
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/lion
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tiger
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/elephant
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/endangered-species
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-africa
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rhinoceros