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Kaziranga guards get satellite phones

Kaziranga guards get satellite phones

  • Kaziranga National Park in Assam has become the first national park in the country where security personnel and forest staff have been equipped with satellite phones to curb poaching.
  • The Assam government has handed over 10 such phones to the Kaziranga forest personnel.
  • The satellite phones will give an edge to the forest personnel over the poachers as well as during emergencies like floods

Key points:

  • The park authorities will bear the monthly expenses for the service provided by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
  • The public is barred from using satellite phones in India.

Benefits:

  • The satellite phones will be used in pockets of the park’s six ranges with no wireless or poor mobile connectivity.
  • This move will boost anti-poaching measures undertaken by the park.
  • It also will be helpful during disasters.

Kaziranga National Park:

  • The park is located on the edge of the Eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspots in Golaghat and Nagaon district of Assam.
  • It was formed in 1908 on the recommendation of Mary Curzon, the wife of the Viceroy of India Curzon.
  • In the year 1985, the park was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
  • It was declared as Tiger Reserve in 2006.
  • the park is also recognized as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International for the conservation of avifaunal species.

Flora:

  • Mainly four types of vegetation - alluvial inundated grasslands, alluvial savanna woodlands, tropical moist mixed deciduous forests, and tropical semi-evergreen forests.

Fauna:

  • Kaziranga Park is home to more than 2200 Indian one-horned rhinoceros, approximately 2/3rd of their total world population.
  • Other animals - Hoolock Gibbon, Tiger, Leopard, Indian Elephant, Sloth Bear, Wild water buffalo, swamp deer, etc.

Satellite phone:

  • A satellite phone is a telephone that has the ability to connect to orbiting satellites.
  • Similar to terrestrial mobile phones, they can connect to voice and short messaging service as well as low bandwidth Internet access.
  • Satellite phones can connect from anywhere as they are directly connected to satellites around the world and do no depend on terrestrial mobile networks.
  • The first satellite phone was launched by Motorola in 1989.

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