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Over this range of habitat types elephants occur from sea level to over 3,000 m (9,800 ft). In the eastern Himalaya in northeast India, they regularly move up above 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in summer at a few sites. [41] India has more than 50% of the wild Asian elephant population. Pictured are herds at Jim Corbett National Park
In 2020, the IUCN listed the Asian elephant as endangered due to the population declining by half over "the last three generations". [149] Asian elephants once ranged from Western to East Asia and south to Sumatra. [150] and Java. It is now extinct in these areas, [149] and the current range of Asian elephants is highly fragmented. [150]
Asian elephants have an estimated population of about 50,000. Over 60% of the population is found in India . Only four other countries in Asia have more than 2,000 wild elephants, including ...
The pre-eminent threats to the Asian elephant today are habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population, and lead in turn to increasing conflicts between humans and elephants when elephants eat or trample crops. Hundreds of people and elephants are killed annually as a result of such conflicts.
The population of Asian elephants in the wild continues to decline, and they are classified as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List.. Today there are only ...
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The Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.In 2011, IUCN upgraded the conservation status of the Sumatran elephant from endangered to critically endangered in its Red List as the population had declined by at least 80% during the past three generations, estimated to be about 75 ...
A shocking new report on global biodiversity is detailing what it calls "a catastrophic decline" in wildlife populations ahead of a major international conference on biodiversity.