Microchip tagging is far less invasive and harm than branch pruning or jin work on your bonsai.

Tagging or implanting your bonsai with NBR microchip can be carry out year round, as long as proper care is taken in treating the cavity.

Microchip tagging is a one time application, no reapplication is needed.

Report the theft with your local police, log on to our website at www.nationalbonsairegistry.com and register your bonsai stolen, ensure you provide as much information as you can, including images if possible. Being part of our registered network allows better protection of your trees, our cohesive community can spring into action, heightening awareness to facilitate the likelihood of your bonsai's return.

A microchip or transponder is an identifying integrated circuit placed under the skin of an object. The chip, about the size of a large grain of rice, uses passive RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology, and is also known as a PIT tags (for Passive Integrated Transponder).

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), like barcode, magnetic stripe, voice data entry and other automatic identification technologies, is an information acquisition technology. RFID consist of a sensing device which transmits a radio-frequency signal to a specially designed tag, which responds with another radio message. What are the advantages of RFID?
The primary benefits of RFID are the elimination of clerical errors in recording data; faster data collection; and a reduction in labour and paperwork required to process data. The advantages of RFID over other ID technologies (such as barcode and magnetic stripe) include:
• Reliable operation in a harsh environment (in wet, dusty, dirty conditions; corrosive environments; applications where vibration and shocks are considerations).
• Non-contact operation.
• Freedom from line-of-sight constraints (low frequency transponders can be read irrespective of orientation; through paint, even through non-ferrous solids).

The hand-held reader range includes:
The LID540 is our most inexpensive, .entry-level" pocket reader with no computer connectivity (i.e. a read-only reader) BUT it can only read ISO FDXB microchips. Because it has been optimised to read only ISO chips it reads them at an average distance of 60mm.