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Elephantine conflict

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

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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

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.

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