A virtual wall has been erected in the Pench Tiger Reserves buffer zone to reduce human-wildlife conflict and protect the people of the buffer zone from wildlife. Earlier, a virtual wall has also been erected in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve.
Human-wildlife conflict is affecting the livelihoods of people who go to the forest to collect forest produce, as well as farmers in the forest area. a virtual wall experiment has been started to prevent tiger attacks on humans using artificial intelligence.
A virtual wall has been created between the forest and the village using artificial intelligence. A virtual protection wall has been created around this village using six cameras. The Pench administration hopes that this virtual wall will help keep humans and wildlife apart. As soon as the wild animals enter inside the virtual wall around the village, on one hand the forest department gets information about it and on the other hand the villagers are also alerted due to sounding of sirens.
The virtual wall system is also able to prevent human interference with the animals in the reserve, illegal encroachment or encroachment into the forest for hunting purposes. This helps in determining the density of herbivores in a particular area. It is also able to find a specific tiger from the database and track where it was last seen and other tigers around it. If a tiger is spotted, an alert message is immediately sent to the forest officer’s mobile phone. Pench Tiger Reserve has specially prepared these cameras. They can be moved (portable) without being fixed in one place, and as a result, they can be transported to areas where there are more incidents of human-animal conflict.