Officials from the Tamil Nadu Forest Department and the Palakkad Division of Southern Railway inspected railway lines passing through the Madukkarai forest range in Coimbatore district to chalk out plans to improve safety measures for wild elephants. Divisional Engineer Anshul Bharti and Additional Divisional Engineer Bibhash Paswan from Palakkad Division joined the Forest Department team along with loco pilots and …
The Railways will soon install an optical fibre-based intrusion detection system along the elephant infested 33-km stretch between Kottekkad and Madukkarai as part of its latest measure to prevent elephant deaths on the tracks. The optical fibre network will detect the presence of animals big and small through vibrations, and send real-time alerts to the intrusion monitoring cell, station masters …
Timely response by the Railway staff, including loco pilots, had saved 87 wild elephants that were spotted along the tracks on the Ettimadai - Kanjikode section of railway lines, which connect Tamil Nadu and Kerala near Coimbatore, from April this year. According to the Palakkad Division of the Southern Railway, the staff came across a total of 128 elephants along …
On an inky black night, an elephant sets out to cross a railway track along a forest path. “A lot is in the hands of the loco pilot,” points out M Ananda Kumar, a scientist at Nature Conservation Foundation, a wildlife research and conservation trust based in Mysore. “A system in which lights warn them of elephant movement will help …
Union Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal has applauded the loco pilot and crew of a train after they stopped on time to save the lives of three elephants crossing the tracks. “The alertness & prompt action of loco pilot & crew helped to save lives of three elephants including one baby elephant crossing rail tracks on Sivok-Gulma section in West …
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