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Pune techie tries hacking into tiger&’s collar
press trust of india
Bhopal, 19 September
In a first of its kind case, a cyber expert based in Pune tried to hack into the digital collar of a tiger which was in Madhya Pradesh to track the movements of the big cat.
The incident prompted authorities at the Bori-Satpura tiger reserve to seek registration of an FIR with a view to a detailed probe into the case.
The matter was discussed during a meeting on Monday between senior officials of the Madhya Pradesh wildlife department and the Wildlife Institute of India (WII).
Dr K Ramesh of WII, who was present at the meeting, said somebody had tried to hack into the Iridium Satellite Collar from Pune in Maharashtra.
The collar on Panna-211, the code name for the said tiger which was relocated recently from the Panna reserve to Satpura stopped working from 24 July onwards, according to the minutes of the meeting.
The collar was put on the roughly three-year-old tiger by WII officials.
The tiger was followed using a ‘camera trap’ and was also spotted physically by forest department officials on 14 September.
Senior officials have been directed to keep track of the tiger continuously for the next six months. Besides, it was decided that the Iridium collar on the tiger would be replaced by a new Very High Frequency (VHF) collar after it acclimatises to the new environs in Satpura reserve.
The collar, which has conked, is still stuck around its neck and will be sent to WII, Dehradun, to find out the reason why it malfunctioned, officials said.
“It is a very serious matter. For the first time, a techie has tried to hack a tiger’s collar. It is an attempt to poach tigers in Madhya Pradesh. We want a detailed probe into the matter,” said Bhopal-based wildlife activist Ajay Dubey.
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