discussion / Human-Wildlife Conflict  / 22 December 2016

Infrastructure impacts

Hi everyone,

Is anyone aware of detection tools to prevent wildlife collisions on highways or railways? I'm particularly interested in finding out if there may be any developments related to detecting large mammals, particularly at night. Thank you.

Cheers,

Nilanga




Hi Nilanga,

 This is a topic of my interest too. I have been doing some work on getting some mitigations implemented on some highways in central India. So what excatly do you mean by tools? Some gadget to detect physical presence on large mammals around highways and railway tracks ? Or some software tools to predict animals crossings along them.

Regards

Udayan

Hi Udayan,

Many thanks for following up and it's great to hear that it's an area of interest for you as well. I'm certainly interested to hear more about the work you've been doing on mitigation actions implemented or being tested to prevent wildlife collisions on highways in central India. Are they early detection tools? By tools, I mean either technology to detect presence and provide warnings to drivers or railway operators, or even tools to predict based on movement patterns. I'm interested in learning about any such measure that is being developed. You may be aware that in the last month alone, around 11 elephants have died from train collisions in northeast India. If there are means being developed to detect presence and prevent such deaths, it would be wonderful to know more about them and how we could test and implement such measures. Look forward to hearing from you.

Best,

Nilanga