Ignoring Sabrina's inexplicable behavior.
After the meeting ended, Heiduo returned to Millennium Town.
The preserve's establishment date had already been set for September in the fall—next month. It would be centered around Anomalous Magnet Mountain, extending from a point ten kilometers in a straight line from Heiduo's Gym, then roughly thirty kilometers beyond Anomalous Magnet Mountain.
The area was not particularly large.
But apart from inhabited bases, a Pokémon Nature Preserve basically contained nothing else. There would not even be the wire fences found around national forest parks in his previous life.
Instead, there would only be metal signs embedded in tree trunks, telling people that Pokémon Nature Preserve lay beyond the trees and that anyone caught capturing Pokémon inside would be arrested.
Yes, even if they caught Golbat or Rattata.
Outside the preserve, Trainers had the legal and legitimate right to capture Pokémon naturally.
There was also a Pokémon Nature Preserve near Violet City. During the gathering of the three Legendary Pokémon, Falkner had even caught a sleazy old man poaching inside it.
As for how they would determine which Pokémon belonged inside the preserve and which came from outside, the first method was manpower.
Just like the preserve around Mt. Silver, Rangers would patrol the area.
Second, there would be small "satellites"—satellite positioning systems carried into the sky by multiple Magneton.
He had heard that the Ranger Union and Pokémon Association were recently planning to send an actual satellite into space. They had initially worried that Rayquaza would shoot it down, but Rayquaza had barely appeared lately, so they had become much bolder.
Satellites could easily expose personal privacy, but they were undeniably convenient and also helped humanity explore the universe.
Four years later, in the Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire arc, Devon Corporation would want to launch