- Launch: 1992
- Funding: Centrally-sponsored scheme
- Aim: To protect elephants and improve their habitat and corridors, reduce human-elephant conflict.
- Elephant: 33 elephant reserves have been notified (Terai ER in Utter Pradesh became India’s 33rd ER); 101 elephant corridors identified.
- Objectives
- Provide financial and technical support to wildlife management efforts, ensure the long-term survival
- Protect elephants, their habitats and migration corridors
- Support research on ecology and management of elephants
- Create awareness of conservation among local people
- Provide improved veterinary care for captive elephants
Asian Elephant
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