If you live in Keya, this is big stuff as a text message from an elephant can save your life. Elephants have on on the rage, crashing into houses and doing all kinds of damage and even killed a man. When the elephants get near, rangers get a text message, and they have 
caught on of them 15 times already and they track them through Google Earth with GPS. Here’s one clear instance where texting can be lifesaving and of course there are many more, but text messaging used appropriately and intelligently can save lives. BD
Kenya is the first country to experiment with elephant text messaging in an attempt to protect its villagers and the roaming herds of elephants who have long had to compete for increasingly limited space. The human-elephant conflict has been to the devastation of both groups, with months worth of income wiped out during a single raid and the elephants often being killed as a consequence.
So they placed a mobile phone SIM card in Kimani's collar, then set up a virtual „geofence“ using a global positioning system that mirrored the conservatory's boundaries. Whenever Kimani approaches the virtual fence, his collar texts rangers. Once an elephant stuck its trunk through a window into a room where her baby daughter was sleeping and the family had stored some corn. She beat it back with a burning stick. Another time, an elephant killed a neighbor who was defending his crop.
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