Elephantine conflict 

Elephantine conflict 

Part of: GS Prelims –Environment  and GS-III- Conservation

In news:

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

• West Bengal, Odisha and Assam — account for about half of both human and elephant deaths in the overall human-elephant conflict in the country,. 
• Past five years 2,361 human deaths were recorded in elephant attacks across the country ,48% fatalities were from these three States,
• Unnatural deaths of elephants (mainly due to poaching, train accidents, electrocution and poisoning), 53% occurred in these three States alone.

Daily Current Affairs IAS | UPSC Prelims and Mains Exam – 17th February 2020

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Baba’s Value addition:

The Indian elephant

• One of three extant recognised subspecies of the Asian elephant and native to mainland Asia
• Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List 
• the wild population has declined by at least 50% since the 1930s to 1940s
• Threatened by habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation.

Project Elephant.

• Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF)flagship elephant conservation programme — Project Elephant.
• Launched in 1992,  Centrally-sponsored scheme
• Primarily aimed at protecting elephant, their habitats and corridors
• Addressing issues of man-animal conflict and welfare of domesticated elephants.
• Recent years project has run aground.