India's Supreme Court has suggested the deployment of Battlefield Surveillance Radar System, thermal imaging cameras and satellite navigation to trace and inform train drivers about the presence of elephants on railway tracks. The court pulled up the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) for not sending any counsel during the hearing and summoned the MoEF secretary to be present in court on September 23 with an affidavit detailing the steps taken by the ministry to save elephants from being killed on train tracks, writes the Times of India. It went on to suggest the environment ministry should map the traditional migration routes of elephants and identify places where they cross railway tracks. There are around 26,000 Asian wild elephants in India.
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