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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 NASA's 'Internet of Animals' Helps Protect Life on Remote US Territory Newsweek  Science 12 July, 2024 | 528 words | ★★ ★ ☆ ☆ Anetwork of animals being tracked by NASA and NOAA satellites is helping researchers protect biodiversity on a distant island group in the Pacific Ocean. This "Internet of Animals" is a project launched in 2020 by The Nature Conservancy, the USGS, NOAA, and several universities, and involves tracking animals on a remote archipelago with wildlife tags via satellite. Tracking the movements of these animals allows scientists to figure out how best to protect these species, according to NASA. The Internet of Animals focuses on Palmyra Atoll, a group of 50 small islands in the middle of the Pacific, which is administered as an incorporated unorganized territory by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It has no permanent human population, has very few visitors, and is contained within a massive U.S. ………………………………