The world is changing. One change is the development of new technologies in tagging. Microvideo cameras. Implantable RFID's. Tiny radio repeaters. Robots of all shapes and sizes. Not only this, but the ability to produce them in enormous quantity at very low cost.
The following is speculation, but I suspect will be very accurate speculation. We already place video cameras inside mobile objects imitating rocks, or tree logs etc., in order to move them close to wild life. Now imagine a similar thing with the mobile video cameras being so small as to be essentially invisible, and the numbers immense and the cost tiny. Will we then place a dust mote size video camera, monitored by a distant computer, onto each and every large wild animal on the planet?
Of course, such micro-robotics will also allow us to kill. It would become ridiculously easy to wipe out all the nuisance animals in places where they should not be.
Imagine our brave new world of conservation. Each undesirable animal is gone. All the undesirable weeds eradicated by the army of robots dedicated to that task. Every animal and plant considered desirable tagged with radio, video etc. All monitored by the super computers of the future. Poachers would not be able to get away with their crimes. The tending of wilderness areas would become highly effective. We might even have radio-pills inside each animal monitoring its health and giving early warning of problems.
Am I being silly with this speculation? Do you think it will happen? If so, do you see this as a good thing?