To tackle the rising number of human-elephant incidents, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has taken up the crucial task of identifying and securing the elephant corridors in the country. The hotspots are nothing but the safe passage facilitated for the species to freely cross between from one of their habitats to another.
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The Environment ministry is also expected to notify about these Elephant corridors after they have been demarcated to give legal protection to the movement of elephants. MoEFCC Minister Bhupender Yadav stated that the ministry has embarked on the task of identifying the areas which the species regularly use and also begun working on charting them on maps.The land use and land cover of elephant reserves will be located in the country through GIS technology.
Indian Express approached experts who claim that the elephant corridors keep changing with time. The Ministry and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) conducted an exercise in 2005, during which the officials had found about 88 elephant zones which increased to 101 in the survey conducted two years ago.
Keywords: sustainability, wildlife conservation, environment
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