Approaching the "Image Chaser"
When sleeping, 3 elephants tightly guard a baby elephant in the middle.
After waking up, the little elephant found that he was stuck inside and couldn't move. Several times he got up without success... Recently, the "super cute sleeping posture" of the northern migrating elephant group photographed by drones was swiped on the Internet.
This picture was taken by the elephant herd monitors of the Yunnan Provincial Forest Fire Brigade.
In the past few days, the northward migration of Yunnan elephants has aroused social attention.
Behind the avoidance of human-elephant conflicts and the achievement of human-elephant harmony is the precise deployment of the local government and the active cooperation and loving guardianship of the masses.
Among them, in accordance with the arrangement of the provincial headquarters for the safety and precaution of the Asian elephant herd in Yunnan, the forest firefighting force also joined the "elephant chaser" team, carrying various equipment such as reconnaissance, communication and command, and tracking and monitoring the movements of the target group.
Wild elephants look very "cute", but large wild animals also have a fierce side.
This means that during the migration of elephants, early warnings must be issued, and work such as evacuation of the masses must be done to avoid encounters with human elephants to the greatest extent.
Most of the time, the elephant herd travels in the forest and is the most active at night.
On May 27, the elephant group was active near Eshan County, Yuxi City.
As night falls, it is difficult for conventional monitoring methods to locate the precise location of wild elephants.
To this end, the monitoring team of the Yunnan Provincial Forest Fire Fighting Corps activated the UAV thermal imaging mode, combined with the local climate, gradually adjusted the UAV monitoring temperature, and successfully locked the elephant group after nearly 30 minutes.
In the monitoring, the staff also explored methods such as integrated air-ground monitoring, which effectively solved the difficult problem of obtaining the position of the elephant group in a complex environment, and provided accurate reference for studying the whereabouts of the elephant group and early warning.
In the task of monitoring elephants, monitoring personnel sometimes face danger.
Especially for tracking and monitoring at night, you must be prepared to face the elephant group face-to-face.
On May 30, during the monitoring mission, the drone operator Zhang Xiong met the elephant group.
"The closest distance to the elephant herd was less than 10 meters, and I was both surprised and frightened." He and his colleagues quickly pulled over and stopped to turn off the lights and turned off the lights. They slowly retreated to the neighboring hometown. "Everyone held their breath and went downstairs after the elephant left. !"
In the past few days, although the monitoring of elephants has been difficult, the staff have also gained a lot of touch.
Under the unified deployment of the provincial headquarters, the counties, towns, and villages along the route will evacuate people in advance, and adopt flexible measures such as road blockage by muck trucks and feeding guidance.
Many people along the way took the initiative to take out corn and other food for the elephants.
Tang Zhengfang, a villager in Gaoliangdi Village, Xiyang Yi Township, Jinning District, Kunming, said that he heard that elephants were coming, so he contacted the township government to donate his own corn to help feed the elephants.
As of 17:30 on June 12, the elephant group continued to move around in a small area of Shijie Township, Yimen County, Yuxi City.
The single elephant was out of the group for 7 days. At 17:40 on June 11, it left Anning City, moved 6.15 kilometers south, and entered Jinning District, 14.3 kilometers away from the elephant group. The elephants were safe.
At present, the provincial headquarters organizes field headquarters member units to work with relevant departments to study elephant group monitoring and early warning, power safety assurance, etc., and organizes expert groups to hold working meetings to scientifically study the migration dynamics of elephant groups, and coordinate and guide related city and city formulation work Plan to ensure the peace of human beings.
(Reporters Yan Yong and Zhao Peiran) Xinhua News Agency issued