Guwahati, March 24: The Manas National Park, in keeping with the times, is going hi-tech.
Aaranyak, a wildlife NGO, has developed a customised database for the park called the Manas Tiger Reserve Information System (Mantris) which will help forest officials to get information on various aspects of the range and also facilitate commoners to get an overview of the entire Manas foothill landscape.
The geographic information system (GIS)-based Mantris is designed for the entire Manas tiger reserve area, which extends from Sankosh river in the west to Dhansiri river in the east, along the Indo-Bhutan boundary. There are 18 ranges in the Manas tiger reserve covering an area of more than 2,800-square km.
The system is ready and will soon be soon handed over to the forest department officials.
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility, the Japan government, the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank funded the project.
“There is not enough geo-spatial data and information regarding this important biodiversity-rich area. Mantris is the first web-GIS-based database designed by the geo-spatial technology application programme of Aaranyak for this area,” project coordinator of Aaranyak Bibhuti Lahkar said today.
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