The state of Assam in India has launched a cell phone app geared toward lowering deaths attributable to 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 attributable to 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 people were killed by elephants in India from 2020 to 2024, in keeping with official information cited by the Hindustan Instances in March.
The app launched in Assam has been developed by Aaranyak, a biodiversity organisation in north-east India.
It additionally comprises a kind enabling victims and their kin to hunt compensation from the native authorities in instances of harm or loss of life because of an assault by the animals.
Aaranyak has additionally unveiled a handbook on solar-powered fences which might deter elephants.
Based on wildlife charity WWF, there are fewer than 50,000 Asian elephants left in the wild. The group estimates that half-a-million households in India are affected by crop-raiding elephants annually.
