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The state of Assam in India has launched a cell phone app geared toward decreasing deaths brought on by wild elephants.
The Haati app will warn individuals of approaching herds of elephants to permit them to get out of the best way.
Assam has one of many greatest elephant populations in India and a excessive variety of elephant and human deaths brought on by their interactions.
Conservationists say elephants have gotten extra aggressive in Assam as a result of their habitats are shrinking, and even their conventional pure corridors are being encroached upon.
As many as 1,701 individuals have been killed by elephants in India from 2020 to 2024, in response to official knowledge cited by the Hindustan Times in March.
The app launched in Assam has been developed by Aaranyak, a biodiversity organisation in north-east India.
It additionally incorporates a type enabling victims and their family members to hunt compensation from the native authorities in instances of harm or demise because of an assault by the animals.
Aaranyak has additionally unveiled a handbook on solar-powered fences which might deter elephants.
According to wildlife charity WWF, there are fewer than 50,000 Asian elephants left within the wild. The group estimates that half-a-million households in India are affected by crop-raiding elephants annually.
