To understand and mitigate human elephant conflict in Chitwan National Park.
Hi Babu, this is Ahimsa, from the UNiversity of Nottingham in Malaysia. In the last couple of years I have deployed a few GPS collars on elephants.Please send me a PM (ahimsa(at)camposarceiz(dot)com) if you want to discuss about our experience in Malaysia. Cheers, Ahimsa
I would suggest that you contact Simon Hedges SHedges[at]WCS.org-- he's the Asian Elephant Coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society, and he'll likely have good information about collars and other issues. Good luck!
Check out http://www.awt.co.za/ They have fitted collars for well over 1000 African Elephants and also to some Asian elephants.
Babu: I suggest you contact Daryl Hoffman of the Houston Zoo ([email protected]). They have been using them on their captive herd for quite some time now. I do not believe that they have had any problems with theirs.
Agreed with Nico: African Wildlife Tracking --> best experience, excellent technology and very interesting deal. Are you trying to put collars on problem animals? (similar experiences in Africa)
Contact rob Appleby at Wildspy in Australia. They have been making collars using new technology and think far outside the box. I highly recommend them as they have been building GPS collars for our project for 2 years now. They also invented new technology which they could tell you about. Email [email protected]
Some very good answers are already here. You can contact Dr. Chowdhury of WII, Dehradun , India. I hope his advice will fulfil your need.
Thank you everybody for your suggestions, I will incorporate your suggestions!
@ John and Alexandre, We tried with African Wildlife Tracking (GPS collars) but GPS did not work well may be due to high moisture conditions here in Chitwan, Nepal. We will put collars on problem animals as well as few others to see the difference on their behaviour and movements.
@ Rina, Thanks for your suggestion! Dr. Chaudhary was here in Chitwan two weeks ago for other works!
I am interested to this research. By the way I have experience of radio-tracking on smal mamammals but not on GPS telemetry. I hope some day I could join with you Babu Lamichhane Ji!
Dear Pushpa Jee,
Thank you for your interest, we have actually started collaring of the elephants. Recently we collared a male from Chitwan with GPS collar from Vectronic that we already had. We will purchase 4-5 new collars for more individuals.
That's great! Since there are alot of GPS telemetry has done in Tigers in Nepal and India and you are already working in that group. Hence will do well. My interest is to deal with behavioural ecology of wildlife. Anyway, this time I am still busy here. hope to see ur nice work.
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