Now, an AI-based app to track elephants and alert villagers in Chhattisgarh

In a move to reduce rising man-animal conflicts, the Chhattisgarh government this week launched an app (application) to track the movements of elephants and alert villagers.

In the past five years, 296 people were trampled by tuskers while 77 elephants were killed in clashes. Acco­rding to forest department offi­cials, Chhat­tis­garh has over 320 elephants, entering the state from Odisha and Jharkhand in search of suitable habitats.

“The Chhattisgarh Elephant Tracking and Alert App works on Artificial Intelligence-based (AI-based) inputs received from Elephant Trackers (Hathi Mitra Dal),” V Srinivasa Rao, the state’s principal chief conservator of forests, said.