India’s rising population, coupled with unsustainable development, is continuously putting a burden on the country’s natural resources and wildlife. Forests are becoming more and more fragmented, wildlife corridors are fast disappearing and villages, fields and cities are increasingly encroaching into practically every natural eco-system.

This has led to a rise in human-animal conflicts, be it with elephants in the west and northeast, monkeys in urban and rural areas, or wolves and leopards in most states where the species are found. Conflicts with carnivores have resulted in many human casualties and in turn animals like leopards and wolves are being targeted by local populations and killed in substantial numbers.

Amongst a variety of strategies employed for conflict mitigation, one is the trapping and translocation of affected animals. However, this is an expensive, labour-intensive and time consuming operation. Quality Engineering Reclaimers Pvt. Ltd, in collaboration with the Maharastra Forest Department and independent scientists, have come up with a more efficient range of trapping equipment, which is less cumbersome, easy to assemble, operate and transport, lighter and more reliable.

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