Gariaband/Raipur: To avoid human-wild animal conflict, mainly elephants, an Elephant App has been launched for accurate information about the location and movement of elephants in Udanti Sita River Tiger Reserve Forest of Chhattisgarh.

Through the app the early warning alerts will be sent. Varun Jain, Deputy Director of Udanti Sita Nadi Tiger Reserve Forest, along with his IT team FMIS and Noida based startup company Kalpataru, has updated the Elephant Alert Tracker App.

The update has been done on the basis of data received from the last 2 years. Through the app, villagers will be able to get accurate information about the presence of elephants in their area. The forest workers coming within a radius of 1,000 kilometres of Chhattisgarh and its surrounding states will also be able to get information about the location of elephants and their movement.

Deputy Director Varun Jain said, “For the last two years, through the app, apart from the location of elephants, we have also been studying their movement patterns, in which we have collected a lot of information. For example, if a female elephant in a group is pregnant or an elephant is sick, then the group moves very slowly.”

“Similarly, it roams around ponds and reservoirs during the summer season. After all these studies, we have now updated the app, if any elephant of the team is sick then a separate health symbol will be visible on that elephant at the location.”