Friday 11 May 2012

Elephant Census start soon in Indian States


Indian Elephants
Indian Elephants
After Last year successful the tiger census in India, then ministry of the forests and environment want the census of Indian Elephants. Many beneficial of the census like, we see the how many tigers are living in the India forest, how to save this royal animal, progress or loss number of the animal, how to stop its poaching and see the problem of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in India. So census is very beneficial for the conservation and stops the poaching of Bengal tigers and Indian Elephants. Thus, now, Indian forests and environment department is starting census of Indian Elephants in the 2nd and 3rd week of the May, 2012.

Generally, all censuses in India are being the conducted in the five years. Last census of the elephant was conducted in the 2007 in the state.  

Kaziranga National Park
Kaziranga National Park
The central government recently the sent a ordered (circular) to all states to the conducts elephant census, both outside of the national parks and wildlife sanctuaries and inside Parks and Sanctuaries to known population of Indian elephants in the whole country. No doubt, Indian Elephants population has grown the beyond imagination.   

India is a whole country; there have more than one hundred national parks and above 400 wildlife sanctuaries. According to a report, there are about of the 50,000 to 70,000 elephants in state’s wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. But Kaziranga National Park is most famous habitat for Indian elephants. Kaziranga National Park is located on the bank of the Bharmputra rive in Assam state of India. Kaziranga National Park is selected in the World Heritage Site by UNESCO.


In the meeting of the Conservator of the Forests and the Deputy Conservator of the Forests was held the before a few days to explain theme dos and the dont’s of propose census.

Kaziranga National Park
Kaziranga National Park
Ajay Mishra, Chief Elephant Project of Karnataka, Chief Conservator of the Forests, told Express that census will be the conducted in 3 days with assistance of the official of forest department of the Tamil Nadu and the Kerala in the Mysore Elephant Reserve in the south Karnataka and Goa and the Maharashtra in the north Karnataka.

The idea of the conducting joint census is to the prevent duplication of the numbers as elephants the cross boundaries in the search of foliage and the fodder. Suitable days for all states will be worked out and census will be the conducted the simultaneously in entire the south India, he said.

Census is followed by the three methods, Mishra said. In the first methods area is selected and divided into the different parts or blocks of 5 square kilometers each. Second method is followed to the Line Transportation Dung Count in which decomposition of the dung is studied to the ascertain number of the elephants. 3rd method is waterhole the count in which census team will obtain the pictures of group. It will give the total picture of number of the adults, calf, juveniles, pachyderms and female and male, he said.

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