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JungleWatch — the beat book, on a phone that works offline.

Patrols, sightings, incidents and conflict cases captured in the field and turned into a record the division office can actually use. Built and run for the Shimla Wildlife Division, 2021–2023.

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What it is

Built for the beat, not the boardroom.

JungleWatch puts a forest division's daily record-keeping into the hands of the people actually walking the beat. Patrols, sightings, incidents and conflict cases are captured on a phone in the field, then synced into a picture the division office can work from.

It is built for the conditions that break ordinary apps: entry-level Android handsets, no network for hours at a time, and staff who may have been posted in last week. Everything works offline first and syncs when a signal returns.

Works fully offline, syncing when connectivity returns
Runs on entry-level Android handsets
GPS captured automatically, so coordinates are not typed by hand
Photographs compressed on device to protect storage and data plans
Designed to be learnable in minutes, because field staff rotate

A uniformed forest officer standing on a jungle track, entering a record in the JungleWatch app on a phone.

What it does

Six things a division needs recorded.

Offline GIS mapping

Beat maps, compartment boundaries and patrol routes stored on the device, so the map still works where there is no signal — which is most of the places it matters.

Patrol tracking

Routes recorded automatically with GPS, giving range officers a factual record of where teams went rather than a reconstructed one.

Wildlife sightings

Structured species records with location, count and photographs, building a dataset the division can query rather than a stack of notebooks.

Incident reporting

Fire, encroachment, poaching signs and injured animals logged the moment they are found, with photographic evidence and coordinates attached.

Conflict & compensation

Human–wildlife conflict cases tracked from first report through verification to compensation, so claims stop falling through the gaps between offices.

Division dashboard

A web view for supervisors covering patrol coverage, incident trends and pending cases — the reporting layer that usually gets built last and needed first.

Inside the app

What field staff actually see.

The JungleWatch app held open in the forest, showing an offline beat map with the patrol route traced across forest compartments and location markers.

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Offline beat map with the day's patrol route

In the field

Where JungleWatch has run.

Delivered for one division and run there for two seasons. It is not currently deployed — the platform is available for a new division to pick up.

Shimla Wildlife Division

2021 – 2023

Himachal Pradesh Forest Department

The first and so far only JungleWatch deployment. It ran from 2021 to 2023, covering patrol logging, sightings and incident reporting for the division's field staff across Himachal's mountain terrain — where connectivity gaps are the rule rather than the exception.

Offline GISPatrol trackingIncident reporting

Digitising a division's field records?

Tell us how your beats, patrols and conflict cases are recorded today. JungleWatch is configured around an existing process, not the other way round.

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