Bhubaneswar, March 7 -- To ensure the protection of wildlife during man-animal conflicts, special protection vehicles were launched by the Odisha government on Thursday. They will be deployed in 18 forest divisions of Odisha.

As soon as a man-animal conflict is reported from any part of a forest, special response teams will lose no time and arrive at the spot within half an hour or an hour in these special vehicles.

As per reports, such special vehicles that will be used for the rescue of wildlife have been designed for Odisha.

Secretary of the Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department Satyabrata Sahu, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) Debidutta Biswal, and PCCF (Wildlife) Susanta Nanda launched a fleet of vehicles ...