State to adopt HAWK for wildlife crime monitoring

In a major step towards tightening the noose around poachers and wildlife criminals, the state government is planning to replicate the Hostile Activity Watch Kernel (HAWK) system, an advanced data-driven platform that has revolutionized wildlife crime monitoring and enforcement in Kerala.

- SUDARSAN MAHARANA @ Bhubaneswar

Addressing the state-level DFO conference here, PCCF (Wildlife)-cum-chief wildlife warden Prem Kumar Jha said the state wildlife wing will soon use HAWK technology to replace manual documentation of wildlife crimes, and equip forest field staff and wildlife crime investigating officials with real-time data tracking, analysis and intelligence generation. The state will also leverage the cut