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The state of Karnataka alone is home to 22% of the elephants, 18% of the tigers and 14% of the leopards in India. The Northeast Indian states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Tripura together with West Bengal account for 30% of the elephants and 5% of the tiger population.
Karnataka state in India hosts the most Asian elephants of any known area, comprising around 20% of the total population in the country. The distribution of elephants in the state according to one estimate is roughly 38,310 km 2 (14,790 sq mi). [ 120 ]
The Indian elephant is native to mainland Asia with nearly three-fourth of the population found in India. The species is also found in other countries of the Indian subcontinent including Nepal , Bangladesh , Bhutan , Myanmar and South East Asian countries including Thailand , Malaysia , Laos , Cambodia , and Vietnam with small populations in ...
Assam is India's most populous state with respect to Asiatic elephants (an estimated 5,500 out of a total of 10,000 wild Asiatic elephants in India live in Assam), [5] and Kaziranga contains as many as 1,206 elephants (from the 2005 census), up from 1048 individuals (in the 2002 census). [6]
The state has the second-largest elephant population — 5,700 — in India, after the southwestern state of Karnataka, home to more than 6,000 of them. ... Asian shares cautious on Korea risk ...
Asian elephants at the Kabini River Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and adjacent areas host the largest Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ) population in India, estimated at 5,750 individuals by 2007. Herds move in 562–800 km 2 (217–309 sq mi) large home ranges and congregate at perennial water sources during the dry season.
The Asian elephant can be found from western India to eastern Borneo in Southeast Asia. A total of three recognized Asian elephant subspecies exist: the indicus, found across mainland Asia, the ...
Common name Binomial name/Trinomial name Population Status Trend Notes Image African bush elephant: Loxodonta africana: 352,000 [1]: EN [1] [1]The population has been reduced dramatically (african elephant populations in 18 countries declined by ~30%) since a mass ivory sell off by southern african countries in the early 2000's to present time.