Assam: Drones and an MLA´s expertise in 10-day quest to capture `killer´ elephant
(WorldNews India)

It was around 4 pm on November 1. A group of forest officials and wildlife experts were huddled around a screen, looking intently at feed from a camera mounted on a drone hovering above the Satabari reserve forest in Assam´s Goalpara district. The camera was searching for a lone rogue elephant that had killed five people in the area three days previously. Advertising A speck of grey appeared amid the lush green of the forest. And Sunny Deo Singh, divisional forest officer of Cachar forest division who was operating the drone, zoomed in on it. `As the drone dropped to a height of 30 metres from the ground, the grey spot turned out to be the elephant - a 9-foot, 8-inch-tall male weighing...