Company Profile

CARE TRAK International, Inc is affiliated with Wildlife Materials, Inc. WMI has been tracking and monitoring endangered species around the world for over 3 decades. Our customers include the Smithsonian, National Audubon Society, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, police search and rescue teams, universities, zoos, private industry, and many more. For instance, Wildlife Materials' equipment has monitored the red-crowned crane in China, African leopards and elephants, crocodiles in India, the California Condor studies funded by the National Audubon Society, the rare black-footed ferret in Wyoming, Auburn University's project on the endangered Indigo snake, and tree shrews in Borneo.

You have seen our equipment in use on television programs such as Wild Kingdom, NOVA, National Geographic, Wild America, Inside Edition, and 60 Minutes on CBS. The legendary Paul Harvey had a report on the CARE TRAK Mobile Locater; we were recently featured in an article in Parade Magazine

Wildlife Materials was established in 1970 by Robert E. Hawkins, a biologist then working as a project director at Southern Illinois University Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory. Our designs were inspired by the needs of field biologists: a computerized temperature calibration system that signals illness, ovulation and stress in large animals, and a subminiature transmitter to fit tiny birds that previously could not wear a transmitter.

With proven technology behind us, adaptation of this expertise to the long term care of people became a logical step. CARE TRAK monitors people who wander due to Alzheimer's Disease and other dementia. The CARE TRAK Mobile Locater can find a lost person up to a mile on the ground. We also serve parents who have children with Down Syndrome, Autism, Prader-Willi Syndrome, mental impairments and traumatic brain injuries.

To address these specialized needs CARE TRAK was established in 1986. In 1988 the Federal Communication Commission granted Care Trak an equipment authorization for operation of the CARE TRAK devise under Part 15 of the FCC rules. Our clients also include dozens of skilled nursing facilities, local police, county sheriffs, private individuals, and search and rescue teams nationwide.

All CARE TRAK equipment is hand built by trained technicians to insure quality and reliability. All transmitters and receivers are fully range tested. Our home and skilled care facility equipment is built to the identical tough standards as our professional research equipment. This attention to detail and over 3 decades of building equipment for wilderness tracking make CARE TRAK the best possible monitoring/locating equipment available today. We welcome and appreciate your questions and comments.