Yosemite launches online bear tracker

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Yosemite National Park is home to hundreds of black bears and the park is hoping to keep the creatures wild and away from humans and their food.

That's the thinking behind the California park's new site, KeepBearsWild.org, which launched this week to protect the black bears known for roaming through the beautiful valleys, meadows and forests of the park.

The interactive site is also home to the National Park Service's first online bear tracker.

The new tracker shows where GPS-collared bears are located, but with a time delay. This to protect the bears' precise location, which could be misused by bear-loving humans or even hunters. The whole point is to protect the furry creatures. Read more...

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via Zero Tech Blog

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