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Download Solution PDFWhich state government has introduced India's first elephant death audit framework?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Tamil Nadu.
Key Points
- Tamil Nadu has launched the "Tamil Nadu Elephant Death Audit Framework," a first-of-its-kind project in India, to better account for elephant fatalities by documenting their causes.
- At the State Wildlife Board meeting, Chief Minister MK Stalin made this announcement.
- The framework aims to achieve three key goals:
- firstly, it provides a systematic standard protocol for conducting post-mortems to identify the cause(s) of elephant deaths;
- secondly, it investigates and analyzes the circumstances surrounding elephant deaths that could have been prevented; and
- thirdly, it develops corrective measures to prevent unnatural and preventive deaths by conducting periodic death audits and tracking these over time.
Additional Information
- Elephants in India: According to Project Elephant's 2017 census, India is home to an estimated 29,964 wild Asian elephants, making it the country with the highest population.
- Approximately 60% of the species' global population consists of it.
- Karnataka has the highest number of elephants, followed by Assam and Kerala.
- The Indian Wild Life Protection Act of 1972 designates elephants as National Heritage animals and provides them with protection under the Schedule I species.
- With the primary goal of restoring elephant habitats and mitigating the suffering of elephants and the human population, the Indian government initiated "Project Elephant" in 1991–1992, a Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change centrally sponsored scheme.
- Its goals included addressing the issue of human-animal conflict and offering financial and technical support to the Indian states that make up the elephant range in order to safeguard the elephants, their habitats, and their corridors.
- It also aimed to advance the welfare of elephants kept in captivity.
- The following goals guided the launch of Project Elephant (PE):
- To protect elephants, their habitat & corridors
- To address issues of man-animal conflict
- Welfare of captive elephants
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