Bear necessities: Indian techie builds wildlife alert
The free site lets residents set watch zones and receive phone warnings, and it has drawn about 9,000 visitors in less than a month.
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Baptised Wildping, this free platform allows to report the presence of wild animals in Kashmir in order to prevent deadly attacks nearby After losing his mother, killed by a
Indian software engineer develops wildlife alert site
After his mother was killed in a bear attack in Kashmir, India, software engineer Mudasir Ali developed an online early warning system to help people in the Himalayan region avoid dangerous encounters with wildlife.Ali created Wildping, a free Web site where users report sightings of animals such as
Bear necessities: Indian techie builds wildlife alert
Ali created Wildping, a free website where users report sightings of animals such as Himalayan black bears and leopards, triggering alerts to people nearby. The 33-year-old launched the platform in October, on the first anniversary of his mother's death. She was among at least 50 people killed, with hundreds more mauled, in wildlife attacks in the territory since 2023, according to official data. "Since then, I have always had it in my mind that…
After his mother was killed in a bear attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, software engineer Mudassar Ali created an online early warning system to help people in the Himalayan region avoid dangerous encounters with wildlife. Mudassar Ali has created a free website called ‘Wild Ping’, where users report sightings of animals such as Himalayan black bears and leopards, which alerts people nearby. The 33-year-old engineer launched the platform in…
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