Madhurita Gupta
Myvets Charitable Trust & Research Centre
India
Title: Innovative way to handle wildlife: Human conflicts mitigation which aims for zero casualties “Wildlife Rescue Bikeâ€
Biography
Biography: Madhurita Gupta
Abstract
Conflict between wildlife and humans are increasing globally with the habitat destruction and the increase in the population of tigers, elephants and leopards in India. With the aim to develop a technology for safe handling of wildlife-human conflicts and safe patrolling in the wilderness “Myvets Charitable Trust & Research Centre” developed “Wildlife Rescue Bike”. In most of the reported cases of leopard rescue during conflicts majority of forest officials gets injured and there are incidences wherein villagers also got injured during the rescue operation while going near the leopards as conflict creates fear in the mind of people and they counteract by beating the wildlife to death or by killing them directly. New technologies will revolutionize the way we handle the wildlife-human conflicts and wildlife conservation, it can be used as a effective and powerful tool for wildlife conflicts mitigation worldwide. The device has been used in India in wildlife terrain and is very effective to provide safety to the forest officials & wildlife veterinarians during the leopard-human conflicts, night patrolling and during tranquilization of wild leopards and tigers for rescue.