• Tambe Kiran Sopan
• Dharne Jayesh Arun
• Rathod Gajanan Gulab

In recent years poaching or smuggling of environmentally and economically important species of trees in forested areas- such as Sandalwood, Teakwood, Pine and Rosewood has been tremendously increased. There have been several initiatives undertaken by different stakeholders– and in particular by the Govt. of India, to mitigate these problems. These include the recruitment, training and deployment of anti-poaching watchers and/or private/govt. security guards across forests. Strict punishments for convicted offenders, as well as giving special incentives for anti-poaching activities (Twelfth Five Year Plan 2012-2017) were aimed for eradicating the menace. The main idea presented in this paper is to design a image processing through camera. It will be mounted on forest area, capable of detecting theft as well as automatically initiate send alert signal.

Image Processing, Tree Smuggling, Raspberry Pi, Pi Camera, Artificial Intelligence.

"INNOVATIVE PROTECTION OF VALUABLE TREES FROM SMUGGLING USING AI & IMAGE PROCESSING", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no.f454-f457, April-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2204558.pdf

"INNOVATIVE PROTECTION OF VALUABLE TREES FROM SMUGGLING USING AI & IMAGE PROCESSING", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no. ppf454-f457, April-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2204558.pdf