Now, Indigenously Developed Devices to Track Elephants

The Karnataka forest department will track the movement of elephants and alert citizens residing in the periphery of forests with the help of indigenously developed radio collars and tracking devices.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Bengaluru

Speaking on the sidelines of the launch of these devices in Bengaluru on Wednesday, Forest, Environment, and Ecology Minister Eshwar B Khandre said these indigenously developed GSM-based radio collars will be fitted to the cow elephant leading the herd. This is the first of its kind in India, he said. The tracker called as KP-Tracker has been developed by the forest department and B