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Tier 3: Characterization of elephant landscape complexes – integration of remotely-sensed and thematic data in GIS The objectives of Tier 3 are the creation of standardized database using remotely-sensed land use information, elephant distribution, habitats, spatio-temporal use and socio-economic information and querying them for elephant conservation and management. This effort will focus identifying key elephant conservation areas, rationalizing elephant range boundaries, and taking measures for other linking areas through preventive, restorative, regulatory, and mitigation processes. Implementation: This effort shall require identifying qualified institutions and the Elephant Authority for developing this database repository, its periodical updating and sharing information with all stakeholders. Primary analysis of the data is to be done by the regional nodal agency and a national level synthesis of the regional analysis is to be done by CERE. Final reports will be put up on NECA websites and will be openaccess. Data once analysed will also be put up on the NECA website and will be open-access to bonafide applicants verified by CERE. Safeguards need to be put in place to prevent misuse such as targeting individual elephants for illegal killing. 2. Promote long term dedicated research through elephant reserve research stations Every elephant landscape is to have a NECA-run Elephant Reserve Research Station within the Protected Area to promote research and monitoring within the Reserve on a long-term and continuous basis. Research officers (both ecological and veterinary) should be posted at such stations and must be given enough promotional avenues for continued motivation. It shall be their task to facilitate and assist in every way, bonafide research by established scholars and research students from India and elsewhere. Applicants should be screened by CERE. While conservation, behavioral and ecological research with management implications continue to be a priority, basic research should also be 37
encouraged in keeping with the spirit of scientific temper. The field stations should provide accommodation and research support including field level laboratories and libraries within the field station. Researchers who avail of these facilities should share their research publications with the Reserve and with CERE. 3. Establish open-air forest laboratories in Reserved Forests adjacent to Protected Areas in elephant landscapes and identify institutions of excellence to run it Each elephant landscape is recommended to set aside and facilitate an independent open-air research facility on the lines of Barro Colorado and other such experiments. These open-air forest laboratories are not to be run by the government but by bonafide research institutions and agencies under a Memorandum of Understanding with the Forest Department for a period of 25 years. These sites are recommended to be not less than 25 km 2 and are to be situated in government reserve or protected forests adjacent to the Protected Areas in the elephant landscapes. Such sites can be used for vital research and long term monitoring such as management of invasive species, experiments in hydrology with surface water bodies and ground water, soil sciences, experiments with the spectrum of living taxa, effect of forest fires on habitat. The multiple dimensions of human-wildlife and forest interactions such as grazing, lopping, collection of non-wood produce, artificial regeneration, selective extraction and the socio-cultural dimensions of human-ecosystem interactions can also be studied at such sites. 4. Institute Gajah fellowships and studentships to post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral students It is recommended that NECA sets up a panel of scholars to screen and select applications for one post- doctoral, three doctoral and six postgraduate fellowships and studentships with emoluments as per UGCA norms. The academic disciplines that qualify can include natural and social sciences, humanities and arts, provided it focuses on elephant ecology, conservation, behavior or its interactions with human beings in its widest sense. 38
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Page 6 and 7: Contents Acknowledgements i Table o
Page 8 and 9: Executive Summary Securing a future
Page 10 and 11: of land use. While securing viable
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Page 14 and 15: PROPOSED STRUCTURE OF ELEPHANT CONS
Page 16 and 17: CHAPTER 1 Introduction Securing the
Page 18 and 19: But we can succeed. Indeed we must:
Page 20 and 21: From the outset, the objective was
Page 22 and 23: CHAPTER 2 Establishing a better gov
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Page 30 and 31: Of these ten Elephant Landscapes th
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Page 38 and 39: Block sample count The total count
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Page 48 and 49: populations rests on consolidating
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Page 54 and 55: cultivated lands. Heavy traffic on
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Page 78 and 79: The Background CHAPTER 5 Mitigating
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Page 82 and 83: Landscape management of HEC The int
Page 84 and 85: a. Opportunistic raiding: If given
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Page 88 and 89: Field Level Issues Field level issu
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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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