Elephant

Project Elephant
Launched in 1991-92 with the objective of saving the Asiatic elephant. The project covers the major elephant populations extending over 12 states and inhabiting an area over 60,000 sq. kms.

Elephant : NGO Interventions

WPSI : Corridor to Survival’ - Landscape Conservation Plan for Elephant Management
Since 1987, large numbers of elephants from Dalma Hills, in East Singbhum district of Jharkhand, have been entering the densely populated districts of Midnapore and Bankura in West Bengal. Predictably, this has resulted in human-elephant conflict of enormous proportion.
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WPSI : Elephant Poaching & Ivory Trade Investigation
The elephant evokes a strong emotional reaction in India. Venerated as a god, idolised on the big-screen as a best friend of man, and in desperate straits due to poaching and loss of habitat in the wild. Only male Asian Elephants bear tusks. The demand for ivory has led to the selective slaughter of tuskers in their prime. As a result the ratio of tuskers and females has fallen to an alarming low.
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WPSI : Rapid Survey of Human-Elephant Conflict & Elephant Mortality in N. Bengal
The Terai and Dooar regions of North Bengal were once strongholds of the Asian elephant. The area includes about 2,200 sq km of forest. Wild elephants are found from the Mechi River on the India-Nepal border in the west, to the Sankosh River in the east on the Bengal-Assam State border.
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