By Sangita Iyer | Project Leader
After 10 months of unwavering determination and overcoming countless obstacles—like delayed funding, national elections in India, and supply chain challenges— we are thrilled to announce that the equipment to be installed inside the Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary has FINALLY arrived!
Despite the hurdles, our technical team on the ground stayed resilient, and focused. We’re now ready to kick off the installation of this life-saving phase by December 2024, ensuring safe migratory pathways and averting train collisions!
With boots on the ground, our team is also conducted surveys along treacherous train tracks, pinpointing the exact locations where cutting-edge AI-based EleSense devices will be installed. This life-saving device will alert train pilots, enabling them to reduce reckless speeds and avert senseless elephant deaths, creating safe corridors for our beloved elephants. This upgraded version, even has built-in cameras to track elephant movements in real time, ensuring their safety as they cross dangerous migratory paths.
We are grateful to YOU, our generous donors for making this possible. Without your support, we cannot do this work. Immeasurable gratitude for your unwavering support and belief in our efforts. Meanwhile, it has been a full year since we launched this campaign, and we still have a long way to go meet our funding goal. We need funding to extend these protections to the elephants of Buxa Tiger Reserve and provide them with safe migratory pathways too.
Please continue to donate HERE: Save Elephants from India's Deadly Train Tracks. Together, we're paving the way for a future where elephants can roam freely without fear.
From the bottom of our humble hearts. THANK YOU SO MUCH for your immense generosity and kindness.
Sincerely,
Sangita
PS:
The harsh reality is, 3-4 elephants are getting killed almost every day - electrocution, railway deaths, poisoning, poaching - the threats are endless! Alarming still is the dramatic decline in the number of elephants. According to the latest report by Wildlife Institute of India there has been a whopping 20% decline in elephant numbers. Worse still, the 2022-23 estimate shows a staggering 41% slide in elephant numbers in the east-central Indian landscape in 2017. So, the fight to save these precious beings continues...
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