Urban waste impacts human and environmental health, and waste management has become one of the major challenges of humanity. Concurrently with new directives due to manage this human by-product, illegal dumping has become one of the most lucrative activities of organized crime. Beyond economic fraud, illegal waste disposal strongly enhances uncontrolled dissemination of human pathogens, pollutants and invasive species. Here, we demonstrate the potential of novel real-time GPS tracking of scavenging species to detect environmental crime.
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Technology Partners: MimirTech
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/feathered-detectives-real-time-gps-tracking-scavenging-gulls-pinpoints-illegal-waste
[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0159974
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/joan-navarro
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/david-gr%C3%A9millet
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/isabel-af%C3%A1n-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-one
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/waste-disposal
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/birds
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/solid-waste
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/remote-sensing
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/spain
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/europe
