Elephant Reserves In India - UPSC

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• Nagarahole National Park and Tiger Reserve, which is a known conflict zone.

• Out of the total of 88 corridors, 20 are in south India, 12 in north-western India, 20 in central India, 14 in northern West Bengal, and 22 in north-eastern India.

• MIKE is entirely dependent on donor support. The European Union has been the most important donor

• The E-8 countries comprise India, Botswana, the Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Kenya, Srilanka, Tanzania, and Thailand.

• Elephants have the longest gestation period of any mammal—22 months

• Females give birth every four to five years.

• led by matriarchs,

• An elephant trunk has up to 40,000 muscles.

• Elephant tusks are actually teeth, once a tusk is broken, damaged, or removed, it stays that way

• Asian elephants are smaller than their African cousin

• Only some male Asian elephants have tusks, while both male and female African

• The direct elephant counting method is based on the sightings of elephants.

• In the indirect method, surveyors follow a dung decay formula for arriving at population

• Karnataka has the highest number of elephants (6,049), followed by Assam (5,719) and Kerala (5706).

• A pilot project RE-HAB (Reducing Elephant-Human Attacks using Bees)

• The reserve is located in the Korba district of Chhattisgarh

• Kameng and East Kameng Districts of Arunachal Pradesh.

• Andhra Pradesh Rayala Elephant Reserve

• Assam Chirang-Ripu Elephant Reserve

• Assam Sonitpur Elephant Reserve