Elephants

[Ashutosh]

Karnataka in Southern India is home to maximum number of elephants and in conjunction with Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the largest population of Asiatic Elephants exists in the Nilgiri Biosphere area. This has led to a lot of man-animal conflict, last year a forest officer was killed by a tusker in Nagarhole. So, India’s first Elephant translocation project has been conceived between Karnataka and Chattisgarh. It is to ease the pressure on Karnataka and repopulate the once very luscious elephant corridor of central India.

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/pets-and-environment/300316/bengaluru-too-many-jumbos-relocate.html

Not sure how I feel about this because elephants have set routes and set water holes which has been passed onto them by their mothers and grandmothers, so don’t know how a new area will affect them. Plus, Chattisgarh is a state with poor conservation record because of naxalism and they are not shy of targetting elephants. Reply