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Leopards by day, elephants by night, I'm back in that 4 hours sleep maximum mode, it's an interesting space, key is to keep water intake up.
Leopards and elephants, such different species yet when it comes to conflict with humans, dealing with both situations can enable learning. I've become very technology orientated in the last few years but with the mindset of keeping things as non-invasive as possible. I set the camera you see here near Messi's main entrance point when he decides to visit our area and stir things up. Most cameras I use are "no glow" in that they use black LED to enable lighting as the lens is activated by motion sensor. This particular camera uses white light, I set it to a 10 second video take which means we had that amount of time to be alerted by a strong bright light. I can see it from the machan about 50 metres away while the others position themselves in the nearest building (well, the nearest building, a bamboo/mud structure that Messi hasn't destroyed) observing on a shift basis.
Early warning systems are key to effective mitigation. I'll try and set things up over the next few days so that a camera sends a message to phone/laptop when the sensor is activated. There's other stuff I'm working on with techs around the world but this may give us an edge over the big tusker for the moment. I'd love to be in a position where we could say to government, hey, let's put a micro tracker on Messi. Micro technology for tracking leopards, completely non-invasive, is another aspect I've been working on for a while, I'm very determined to get that right.
I'll update how this camera system we're using now on Messi and the tiger audio as a deterrent are going in due course. Cheers from a bleary eyed Jack.
