Maintaining that its recent elephant population estimation exercise was “more precise” than the previous surveys, the Forest department has stood by its migration theory to explain the fall in elephant population, with their habitats in Kerala being contiguous with the forests of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu sharing an inter-State boundary length of 957 km. In its Elephant Population Estimation in …
The first estimation exercise of fishing cats done in West Bengal has found that at least 385 of these animals are reportedly living alongside tigers in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove delta. While this is the first such estimation of the cat in the state, it is the second estimation of fishing cats in India after Chilika in Odisha,” …
The Union Environment Minister said that local and indigenous people should be involved in the conservation efforts. On Elephant Day, Bhupender Yadav, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change announced that India will be conducting its first scientific estimation of its elephant population, and will conduct a tiger census as well. “There has been a pressing need to improve and …
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