Digital Signage: Digital signage for safe passage of elephants |
Rourkela: In an initiative to provide safe passage to elephants and avoid accidents, the Bonai forest division in Sundargarh district has placed digital/retro-reflective signage in various vulnerable locations in Koida and Barsuan ranges.
“Scarcity of palatable crop in parent habitat is making the largest animal (elephant) ingress into cultivated land and houses time and again to satiate their huge requirement.Intensified and unabated roaming of elephants in human locality far beyond the fringe area resulted in increase of the quantum of death and damage. The regular movement paths of elephants are very much widened now covering a large extent of human pathways,” a release issued by the division read.“Digital signage/retro-reflective signage are being placed in various sensitive locations particularly in Koida/Barusan forest ranges,” it said. tnn
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