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Contents Acknowledgements i Table of Contents iv Executive Summary 1 1. Chapter 1 : Introduction 9 2. Chapter 2 : Establishing a better Governance Model 15 3. Chapter 3 : Upgrading Research and Monitoring Systems 27 4. Chapter 4 : Securing Elephant Landscapes 40 (a). Survey of elephant landscapes 41 (b). Elephant corridors 54 (c). Development activities and 59 Elephant landscapes 5. Chapter 5 : Mitigating Human–Elephant Conflict 71 6. Chapter 6 : Anti Poaching, Trade and International Ivory Issues 91 7. Chapter 7 : Compassionate care for Captive Elephants 106 8. Chapter 8 : A Global lead for India in elephant conservation 120 9. Chapter 9 : Taking Gajah to the People 124 iv
10. Chapter 10 : Summary of Major Recommendations 129 References 143 Annexures I. List of Submissions 152 II. List of Hearings 157 III. Elephant Reserves in India 158 IV a. Priority I Elephant Corridors 162 IV b. Priority II Elephant Corridors 163 V. Guidelines for Perspective Plans 166 VI. Flow diagram of elephant monitoring 170 VII. Enumeration of Elephants 2005: Guidelines for 171 calculating Dung Decay Rate for Elephant Reserves by Retrospective Method VIII. Elephant Census 2005:Methodology and Dates 177 v
Page 2 and 3: Gajah Securing the Future for Eleph
Page 4 and 5: Public hearings were organized at t
Page 8 and 9: Executive Summary Securing a future
Page 10 and 11: of land use. While securing viable
Page 12 and 13: Gajah is a symbol of a search for b
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 26 and 27: The Chief Wildlife Wardens of the e
Page 28 and 29: of large numbers of residents in th
Page 30 and 31: Of these ten Elephant Landscapes th
Page 32 and 33: In the 8 th Five Year Plan the allo
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Page 38 and 39: Block sample count The total count
Page 40 and 41: (0.0097) from single source study c
Page 42 and 43: Tier 1: Dung surveys for elephant o
Page 44 and 45: Tier 3: Characterization of elephan
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Orissa has about 57% of the elephan
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sal (Shorea robusta) forests as a r
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Hills form the Tamil Nadu part of t
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India have put in additional resour
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Government and non government organ
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c) Infrastructure and development p
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is about 18 % of the total recorded
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non-forest uses will be subject to
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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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No. of Visit Date of Visit No. of f
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8. Recording Observations: A Dung D
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Pg 1/3 Annexure VIII ELEPHANT CENSU
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Pg 3/3 III South Brahamputra 9. Dih
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