B.C. man's Google Elephant system helping save threatened species in Africa

Forget Google Earth. Thanks in part to a tech-savvy student at the University of British Columbia, rangers in northern Kenya and South Africa are tapping into technology to combat poaching. Jake Wall, a PhD student in UBC's geography department, works for the conservation group Save the Elephants, where he has helped outfit almost 100 of the mammals with GPS satellite-tracking collars. At any given point they fire up Google Earth and check on the latest locations of the elephants and what they're doing," he said.

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