The Odisha government is reportedly planning to install CCTV cameras in forest divisions in an effort to check hunters and poachers, Forest department officials said.
“CCTV cameras will be installed in forest divisions as part of protective measures,” the secretary of Forest and Environment Department RK Sharma said. Though such facilities are already in place in two tiger reserves – Similipal and Satkosia – for enumeration of the big cat population, CCTV cameras will also now be used in vulnerable pockets to identify poachers and hunters.
While CCTV cameras are fixed in the Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary, such system needs to be extended to other places to provide a better protection to the wild animals.The department, which is worried about large scale elephant poaching in the state, has apparently identified the Sambalpur wild life division for installation of CCTV cameras. (Source: Security Today)
At least 378 elephants have died in Odisha between 2009-10 and 2014-15. During this period, at least 35 elephants have fallen prey to poaching while another 17 have died of poisoning. Besides, as many as 60 elephants have died of electrocution during last five years. Of the 60, as many as 33 cases are of deliberate electrocution which takes place in retaliation to crop raiding and house damage
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