Solar powered blinking lights to check leopard attacks in Bijnor

MEERUT Increasing leopard attacks in different parts of Bijnor district have alarmed the foresters who have now decided to take help of technology to minimise man- animal conflict in the district. Officials of forest department and experts of WWF India installed solar powered Blinking lights at different locations in Bijnor on Wednesday. The forest department has decided to go in for trials of solar powered blinking lights, designed and developed by the students of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, as per the forest department’s sub divisional magistrate in Bijnor, Gyan Singh. “We have received 10 lights which were installed on Wednesday, with help from WWF India experts, alongwith trap cameras in those locations where frequent movement of leopards has been captured”, said Singh and explained that these lights got charged through sunlight and created an illusion of existence of human population or possible danger to leopards and other wild animals.