CHIKKAMAGALURU: The Forest Department in Karnataka has come up with a new device to drive away elephants that enter villages or private land. They have come up with a device that produces a strange noise and visual effect, which is designed to scare away elephants. This device, which is attached to a tree, uses to detect the elephants’ approach.
The department has been facing a challenging task in preventing elephants from entering villages and farms, especially in the Malnad region. The department has come up with a novel solution to address this issue.
When elephants come within a certain distance, the device makes a loud, unsettling noise, along with a bright light. The elephants, frightened by the noise and light, go back into the forest. The device has already been successfully tested in several areas.
The Forest Department is now planning to distribute this device to farmers at a subsidized rate. This move is expected to bring relief to farmers who have been struggling to protect their crops from elephant attacks. With this innovative solution, the department hopes to reduce human-wildlife conflict and promote coexistence between humans and elephants.
The forest officials, and also farmers, have also been worried day and night due to wild elephant menace. But now, they can control 20 elephants sitting in the office, and easily divert elephants away with this device.
The authorities, who monitor the movement of elephants with a drone camera, install this device at a height of 6-8 feet on a tree on the way to the villages and plantations frequented by elephants. When the elephants are 15-20 metre away, the device continuously makes strange sounds. Frightened by that sound, the herd of elephants returns the way they came. This experiment has already been successful in the Malnad region, and people and officials have heaved a sigh of relief.
For now, the forest authorities have succeeded in preventing wild elephants from coming to the villages with the help of this device. Farmers can save their crops from wild elephants, and the forest officials can be a little relieved. This solar device works through a sensor and starts making sounds as soon as elephants come near. Its light looks like the light from a firecracker, so the elephants are frightened. This trial has already been successful, and the Forest Department is planning to provide this device to farmers with subsidy in the future.
