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CHAPTER 2 Establishing a better governance model Project Elephant was launched by the Government of India in the year 1992 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). It was intended to provide financial and technical support to the elephant range states of India for the protection of elephants, their habitat and corridors and address issues of human-animal conflict. It also sought to promote welfare of captive elephants. Administratively, it formed one division of the Wildlife Wing of the MoEF. The main stated objective of Project Elephant is to ensure long-term conservation of viable populations of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) and its natural habitats in India. Against this overall prime objective, the immediate goals of the Project Elephant scheme are: • Ecological restoration of existing natural habitats and migratory routes or movement paths of elephants. • Development of scientific and planned management programmes for conservation of elephant habitats and of viable populations of wild Asian elephants in India. • Promotion of measures for mitigation of human elephant conflict in crucial habitats and moderating pressures of human and livestock activities in crucial elephant habitats. • Strengthening of measures for protection of wild elephants from poachers and unnatural causes of death. • Research on elephant management related issues. • Public education and awareness programmes. • Eco-development. • Veterinary care. 15
• Technical and administrative assistance to states in fulfilment of the above. • Facilitate, enable and encourage research on elephants, their ecology, behaviour, habitats and elephant-human relations in the wider sense. While the MoEF oversees and guides the project, it is the concerned state governments which implement programmes. The strategy being adopted for this is two fold: • A Steering Committee for Project Elephant has been constituted which includes representatives of the government as well as nongovernment wildlife experts and scientists. Besides, the Chief Wildlife Wardens of the 12 elephant range states, and the heads of four premier institutions, namely the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Botanical Survey of India (BSI) and Indian Veterinary Research Institute(IVRI) are permanent invitees to the meetings of the Steering Committee. The committee advises the centre on project related issues. • The central government, through a centrally sponsored scheme, arranges for and provides financial, technical and scientific assistance to the states having free ranging populations of wild elephants, on approved items of work that directly or indirectly contribute to ensuring the long-term survival of identified viable populations of elephants in their natural habitats. In spite of the project working for almost 18 years and the fact that the measures and programmes taken up for the conservation the elephant have shown some encouraging signs, Project Elephant itself has not been able to grow and take a leadership role in elephant conservation in the country. Although the current population estimates of elephants in India generally show an upward trend, the selective elimination of the males has resulted in a skewed sex ratio in some parts of the country threatening the viability of elephant populations. Human-elephant conflict is on the 16
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clearing of forest is one of the mo
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afforestation, year-wise phased for
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h. An independent system of concurr
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The Background CHAPTER 5 Mitigating
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Secondly, conflict mitigation evolv
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Landscape management of HEC The int
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a. Opportunistic raiding: If given
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mitigation strategy that will event
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Field Level Issues Field level issu
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(Jharkhand), Majuli (Assam), Rom-Mu
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construction and maintenance are al
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eing properly applied (by the gover
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egions in India, taking into accoun
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CHAPTER 6 Anti poaching, Trade and
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esults in loss of life and limb for
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male reproduction between 25 and 30
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A shift in demand will render the i
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Legal importation of soft ivory doe
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documented a Japanese ivory carver
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g. Regular information gathering al
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4. Policy interventions including C
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most states of India. These numbers
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include the phasing out of elephant
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that having a certificate of owners
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employment. Their knowledge too des
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Owners are the link between the ele
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c. A one time amnesty for elephant
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n. Activities that cause stress and
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elephant conservation and the scien
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The immediate priority should be th
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The Manasolasa by Someswara, a Sans
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The ubiquity of elephants in everyd
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CHAPTER 10 Summary Recommendations
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9. The Task Force recommends settin
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4. It is envisaged to establish Ope
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important to sensitize local commun
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15. Database for elephant related c
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11. All mahouts in service and newl
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9. Fences and Trenches can only wor
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References Ali, S. A. 1927. The Mog
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Datye, H.S.1995. Ecology of elephan
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detection probabilities are less th
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Sar, C.K. and Lahiri Choudhury 2001
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Varma, S. Venkataraman,A., Sukumar,
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24. Jadavaden Namboodri, Trustee, V
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71. R.M. Nair, Kerala 72. Rajappan
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Annexure II List of Hearings held b
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2 Kameng -Sonitpur Landscape (Aruna
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9 Periyar- Agasthyamalai Landscape
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Northern India Annexure IV(b) Prior
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4 Talamalai-Guttiyalattur 5 Avaraha
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etter way of restoring water rechar
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6. Budgeting should be provided whe
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Annexure VII Enumeration of Elephan
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8. Recording Observations: A Dung D
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