Forest department to use drones to track rogue elephants in Hassan
Deccan ChronicleHassan: The Hassan forest department plans to use a night vision drone to keep tabs on the movement of elephant herds, especially in the Sakleshpur region, where they often stray into human habitats, leading to frequent man-animal encounters. Elephant researcher, Vinod Krishnan of the Nature Conservation Foundation, finds the night vision drone a safe option to locate elephants at night, pointing out that they can now be tracked even under a canopy of trees without causing them any harm. But some wildlife activists are against the idea of using the drones for driving elephants back into the forests during the day as they believe they could get agitated in places like Hassan where the jungles are fragmented. The forest department had in collaboration with NCF started sending bulk SMS alerts to residents in Alur and Sakleshpur taluks on elephant presence in their areas a couple of years ago and had also installed signboards on their movement to curb man-elephant conflict in the region.
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