South African IoT device company G8Way Technologies has announced a deal with global satellite IoT connectivity solutions provider eSAT to use eSAT satellites for tracking endangered species.
Way back in 2007, when Google's then CEO Eric Schmidt was still a presumably trusted Apple board member, he was asked by then Apple CEO Steve Jobs to have Google stop trying to poach an Apple employee, with Google starkly promising to rapidly terminate the person responsible.
Enforcement of an international ivory ban has reduced the numbers of elephants killed each year. However, any type of approval to lift that ban (even temporarily) will, in all likelihood, spur more killing of elephants for their ivory.