Kaziranga National Park
Context:
- Kaziranga has become the first National Park in India to have been equipped with satellite phones.
Need:
- For boosting anti-poaching measure.
- The satellite phones will be used in pockets of the park’s six ranges with no wireless or poor mobile connectivity.
- The satellite phones will give an edge to the forest personnel over the poachers and also during emergencies like floods.
About satellite Phones
- Satellite phones, are generally used by the law-enforcing agencies.
- The public is barred from using satellite phones in India.
- The Government of India has issued an advisory that the use of Thuraya/Irridium satellite phone in India are banned and unauthorised/illegal in India under Section 6 of Indian Wireless Act and Section 20 of Indian Telegraph Act.
- Satellite phones uses radiowaves radiation for communication.
- Satellite phones send radio signals to a satellite which then transmits back down to earth where a station will then route the call to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
- Unlike traditional cell phones that rely on cell towers, satellite phones work anywhere on earth. Satellite networks are the only networks offering reliable communication.
- For this reason, satellite phones work anywhere, even in the most remote areas of the world.
About KNP:
- Kaziranga National park’s is home to more than 2200 Indian one-horned rhinoceros, approximately 2/3rd of their total world population.
- It is located in the edge of the Eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspots – Golaghat and Nagaon district.
- In 1985, it was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
- It was declared as Tiger Reserve in 2006.
- It is recognized as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International for the conservation of avifaunal species.
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