The article claims the most well known incident is when eight grey wolves introduced to Yellowstone were tracked down and shot through of their GPS transmitters

The article claims the most well known incident is when eight grey wolves introduced to Yellowstone were tracked down and shot through of their GPS transmitters: > "Cooke said the worst known case of GPS interception by poachers was when eight grey wolves in Yellowstone national park were hunted down." This claim of the use of GPS trackers to hunt wolves in Yellowstone, stated as the worst known case, appears to be fabricated. The research journal article does not make the same claim cited in the linked article. (Which fails to link to or cite the article it is sourcing; it is "Troubling Issues at the Frontier of Animal Tracking" for those interested.) The journal article mentions instead "speculation in the media suggests that hunters may target tagged wolves from Yellowstone to interfere with research.... websites operated by some wolf-persecution groups provide strategies for figuring out tag codes." Speculation, not evidence or proof. Efforts to reintroduce wolves into the Yellowstone area have been ongoing for decades and have been so successful that there are now legally sanctioned wolf hunts in order to help control the population. Of the wolves killed in the vicinity, some have had VHF radio collars which can be picked up in the near vicinity with radio trackers, and one, 832F, had a more modern GPS collar. Of the 11 wolves that were being tracked with either radio or GPS collars in Yellowstone, 4 were shot by hunters, all legally, in permitted hunts. This is not poaching. Poaching is illegal. Nor is there proof that any of these legal hunters used the collars to find the wolves. Suggestions they did so far have just been wild speculation by media, wolf enthusiasts, and journal authors who refer to legal hunters as "wolf-persecution groups", a tell of their viewpoint bias.