Description of Challenge
Violent wildlife encounters in urbanizing areas.Initiative in India: general sms alert warning for elephants prevent violent encounters between humans and elephants.
Solution
Mobile phones are being increasingly used in one of India’s southern states to reduce conflict between Asian elephants and the humans who live near their habitat.
Ananda Kumar of the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) is leading this technological revolution to bring down the number of human casualties from these encounters by sending out mass text alerts to those in the rural areas, where mobile phones are fairly common these days.
