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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.
Project Elephant is a wildlife conservation movement initiated in India to protect the endangered Indian elephant.The project was initiated in 1992 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of the Government of India to provide financial and technical support to the states for wildlife management of free-ranging elephant populations.
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Apart from India, following is the distribution and estimated population of Indian elephants across Asia. [16] 100–125 in Nepal, where their range is restricted to a few protected areas in the Terai along the border with India. In 2002, estimates ranged from 106 to 172 resident and migratory elephants, with most of them in Bardia National ...
A census on wild Asiatic buffaloes in March 2001 revealed the presence of 1,666 buffaloes — the largest population of the species reported in this millennium, [4] up from 677 in the 1984 census. 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 ...
As of 2017, the estimated wild population in India account for nearly three-fourths of the extant population, at 27,312 individuals. [45] In 2019, the Asian elephant population in India increased to an estimated 27,000–29,000 individuals. [46] [47] As of 2019, the global wild population was estimated at 48,323–51,680 individuals. [48]
During a waterhole census carried out in Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary on 21 and 22 May 2022 at 43 waterholes, 66 Asian elephants were spotted; the number wild bears has gone up to 19 this year from last year's 13, wild boars to 162 from 152, porcupines to 79 from 63, langurs to 40 from 38, monkeys to 552 from 496, reed squirrels to 45 from 39 ...
The reserve is located over parts of Paschim Medinipur district, Jhargram district and Bankura district of West Bengal, India. The area of this elephant reserve is 414.06 km 2 (159.87 sq mi). and adjoining 1,436 km 2 (554 sq mi). area is also declared as 'Zone of Influence'. The elephant population in MER increased from 47 in 1987 to 118 in ...