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Bengal Forest Department Rolls Out App To Profile Elephants, Track Location

A pilot project has already been rolled out. Under this, information about about 50 elephants from different forest divisions of North Bengal has been uploaded.

Darjeeling: The West Bengal forest department, in collaboration with voluntary organisations, has launched a special app to get locations of elephants straying into localities. As the number of poaching incidents is on the rise in the Indo-Nepal border, leading to the death of many elephants, the initiative aims to stop that.

A pilot project has already been rolled out. Under this, information about about 50 elephants from different forest divisions of North Bengal has been uploaded, and more information will be uploaded in

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