The term ‘M-STrIPES’ is sometimes seen in the news in the context of
- Captive breeding of Wild Fauna
- Maintenance of Tiger Reserves
- Indigenous Satellite Navigation System
- Security of National Highways
Explanation
Option (b) is correct
- MSTrIPES: Monitoring system for Tigers – Intensive Protection and Ecological Status.
- It was launched across Indian tiger reserves by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and WII in 2010. It is a software-based monitoring system, designed to assist wildlife protection.
- The system consists of two components:
- field based protocols for patrolling, law enforcement, recording wildlife crimes and ecological monitoring,
- a customized GIS software for storage, retrieval, analysis and reporting.
- Under MSTrIPES, forest guards are expected to record their tracks using a GPS, in addition to recording observations in site-specific data sheets. The app records the staff’s path and helps upload geo-tagged pictures into the central GIS database.
