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The Kerala Forest Department has formed a peculiar drone squad to fortify monitoring of chaotic elephants and trim human-wildlife struggle successful Aralam and surrounding areas of Kannur district.
The inaugural was launched nether the enactment of the Kottiyoor Range of the Kannur Forest Division. As portion of the programme, tract unit received grooming successful the cognition and tract usage of precocious wildlife monitoring equipment, including thermal drones, nighttime imaginativeness thermal binoculars, ASKS lights, and camera traps.
A ocular captured by the drone squad | Video Credit: peculiar arrangement
The grooming was led by Ananthu CN, who received specialised acquisition from Chennai-based RFLY Innovation. Sessions focused connected the relation of exertion successful wildlife monitoring and the effectual usage of instrumentality during exigency situations.
The peculiar drone squad has been constituted jointly by the Kannur Forest Division and the Aralam Wildlife Division to amended surveillance of occupation elephants successful the Aralam workplace and Aralam rehabilitation areas, wherever human-elephant struggle has been a recurring concern.
Thermal drones volition beryllium deployed to observe elephants entering residential areas during the nighttime and to assistance successful safely driving them backmost into protected wood areas. The exertion volition besides assistance officials place damaged fencing, behaviour accelerated inspections, fortify monitoring efforts, and enactment nighttime patrol operations.
Irrity Section Officer Sunilkumar Chennappoyil has been appointed squad person of the drone squad, portion Beat Forest Officer Jishnu Payam and Ananthu C.N. volition service arsenic method experts.
According to Forest Department officials, the squad functioning nether the enactment of the Deputy Range Forest Officer RR Team (Rapid Response Team) and comprising selected tract unit has commenced operations aimed astatine reducing wildlife struggle and improving exigency effect capabilities.
