J’khand man-animal battle: Track motion of untamed tuskers actual time

By Express News Service

RANCHI:  Concerned over common incidents of man-animal battle in Jharkhand, the State Forest Department is creating a cellular app on which it might be capable of replace the precise location of untamed elephants regularly. 

According to forest officers, this may also assist in figuring out the areas the place the tuskers cease for a relatively longer time period and the vegetation obtainable there so {that a} related surroundings could possibly be developed at different areas to maintain them away from densely populated areas.

Besides roping in forest guards to replace the placement of untamed elephants, the assistance of native villagers is also taken to collect info on this regard. Presently, the data associated to the motion of untamed elephants is made obtainable via SMS on cellphones and likewise up to date on the web site of the forest division.

“We have been thinking of developing an app to track wild elephants so that the exact pattern of the route followed by them every year could be identified easily. Through this app, it could also be determined that how many herd of wild elephants are on the move at a particular time in the state,” mentioned Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) (Wild Life) Shashikar Samanta. 

As of now, there isn’t any mechanism within the state to find out the precise variety of elephant herds as they carry on transferring from one place to a different, and plenty of occasions, the identical herd is reported a number of occasions by completely different divisions, he added.

Samanta mentioned that one explicit herd is also recognized and tracked simply by utilizing this app. He, nonetheless, mentioned that brainstorming remains to be on to make it more practical. He added that presently, it’s being developed from the administration perspective so that knowledge could possibly be created for analysis functions in the long term.

According to an estimate, there are practically 600 wild elephants which carry on transferring in numerous teams, 
he added. Meanwhile, on the premise of the suggestions given by a five-member committee, orders have been handed to catch maintain of the lone wild tusker which has claimed as many as 16 lives within the final fortnight, by tranquillizing it.
 

RANCHI:  Concerned over common incidents of man-animal battle in Jharkhand, the State Forest Department is creating a cellular app on which it might be capable of replace the precise location of untamed elephants regularly. 

According to forest officers, this may also assist in figuring out the areas the place the tuskers cease for a relatively longer time period and the vegetation obtainable there so {that a} related surroundings could possibly be developed at different areas to maintain them away from densely populated areas.

Besides roping in forest guards to replace the placement of untamed elephants, the assistance of native villagers is also taken to collect info on this regard. Presently, the data associated to the motion of untamed elephants is made obtainable via SMS on cellphones and likewise up to date on the web site of the forest division.

“We have been thinking of developing an app to track wild elephants so that the exact pattern of the route followed by them every year could be identified easily. Through this app, it could also be determined that how many herd of wild elephants are on the move at a particular time in the state,” mentioned Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) (Wild Life) Shashikar Samanta. 

As of now, there isn’t any mechanism within the state to find out the precise variety of elephant herds as they carry on transferring from one place to a different, and plenty of occasions, the identical herd is reported a number of occasions by completely different divisions, he added.

Samanta mentioned that one explicit herd is also recognized and tracked simply by utilizing this app. He, nonetheless, mentioned that brainstorming remains to be on to make it more practical. He added that presently, it’s being developed from the administration perspective so that knowledge could possibly be created for analysis functions in the long term.

According to an estimate, there are practically 600 wild elephants which carry on transferring in numerous teams, 
he added. Meanwhile, on the premise of the suggestions given by a five-member committee, orders have been handed to catch maintain of the lone wild tusker which has claimed as many as 16 lives within the final fortnight, by tranquillizing it.