MoEF&CC in efforts to implement AI-based animal warning system for railway lines running through jungles: Kirti Vardhan Singh

An Synthetic intelligence (AI) based mostly early warning system for the protection of wildlife will probably be carried out in any respect railway traces passing by means of forests, mentioned Kirti Vardhan Singh, Union Minister of State for Surroundings, Forest and Local weather Change, on Tuesday.

“We are attempting to do this throughout all of the railway traces that run by means of jungles and run close to jungles. That is going to be carried out not just for elephants, however for different wildlife additionally. We’ve a number of tiger deaths taking place, additionally [due to train hits] and different wild animals. It is going to be carried out in all such areas. From the Centre, we’re taking it to implement it as quick as attainable”, he mentioned. The Minister, when requested whether or not his Ministry would replicate a profitable AI-based warning system, which Tamil Nadu carried out on railway tracks to forestall elephant deaths at Madukkarai close to Coimbatore.

Mr. Singh, who attended World Elephant Day celebrations in Coimbatore on Tuesday, mentioned human – animal battle was one of many prime priorities of the Ministry.

“We’re taking all precautions and using the most recent strategies to reduce and mitigate the state of affairs. We’re utilizing radio collars, satellites and synthetic intelligence. However the unhappy truth is that since human communities reside so carefully with nature. So should you ask me can we make 100 % proof, no we will’t. As a result of we reside with them… However we’re taking all attainable insurance policies and plans to cut back it as a lot as attainable,” he mentioned on the sidelines of the celebrations.

Supriya Sahu, Secretary of Surroundings, Local weather Change and Forests Division, harassed the necessity for sharing greatest practices from every State for the administration of human – wildlife battle and habitat safety.

The Minister launched ‘Wholesome Toes, Wholesome Elephants: A information to foot care in captive Asian elephants’; a particular version of Trumpet, the quarterly e-newsletter of the Undertaking Elephant; Hostile Exercise Watch Kernel (HAWK) app of Tamil Nadu Forest Division; ‘An Historic Bond: The elephant Whisperers of Mudumalai’, a espresso desk ebook by Tarsh Thekaekara; ‘The Misplaced Elephant and the Soul Tree’ by The Hindu journalist Akila Kannadasan.

He additionally offered the Gaj Gaurav Awards to Ganesh Tamang and Sumit Gogoi, mahout and attendant of Arunachal Pradesh Forest Division; Kesu Singh Walke and Sahadan Ram Lakda, assistant mahouts from Madhya Pradesh Forest Division; S. Karthikeyan and M. Murali, forest guard and anti-poaching watcher from Dharmapuri circle in Tamil Nadu; and Irshad Ali, mahout from Uttar Pradesh Forest Division.

Sushil Kumar Awasthi, Director Basic of Forest and Particular Secretary, Ministry of Surroundings, Forest and Local weather Change; Srinivas R. Reddy, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) and Head of the Forest Power, Tamil Nadu; and Rakesh Kumar Dogra, PCCF and Chief Wildlife Warden, Tamil Nadu, additionally spoke.