GPS to track deer at Guindy National Park

 


When the annual deer census begins at the Guindy National park in the first week of May, high-tech means will be used to track the deer population. The Wildlife department will make extensive use of navigational and mapping tools such as the Global Positioning System, to arrive at a near-accurate estimate of the spotted deer and the endangered blackbuck.
"Permanent transit lines have been put in position using GPS to be used as coordinates in mapping the 270 –hectare national park bang in the heart of the city. This along, with the use of the revised methodology recommended by the Wildlife Institute of India (WLI), Dehradun, is an improvement over earlier surveys which relied on less advanced methodology".

(The Hindu, 17th February 2007)