Jharkhand To Use "Jumbo Hooters" To Scare Away Elephants From Villages
NDTV
The "Jumbo Hooter" - Animal Intrusion Detection and Repellent System (ANIDERS) - is a solar-powered machine, the sensors of which can distinguish between animals and humans and raise an alarm on detecting elephants within its range, alerting the people nearby.
Amid increased instances of elephants wreaking havoc in Jharkhand, trampling villagers to death and destroying crops and property, the Saranda Forest Division authorities decided to take resort to "Jumbo Hooters" that will scare the intruding animals away with a combination light and sound, an official said on Monday.
The "Jumbo Hooter" - Animal Intrusion Detection and Repellent System (ANIDERS) - is a solar-powered machine, the sensors of which can distinguish between animals and humans and raise an alarm on detecting elephants within its range, alerting the people nearby.
ANIDERS is being installed at 18 villages affected by elephant attacks in the Saranda region in the first phase as a pilot project, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Saranda, Chandramauli Prasad Sinha, said.
The machine's built-in camera will record the activities of the elephants and send the footage to forest officials, alerting them too.
