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42 elephant corridors in Tamilnadu
May 2 , 2024
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- A committee was constituted by the Tamil Nadu government to identify elephant corridors in the State.
- It has brought out a list of 42 elephant corridors and has invited comments from the public.
- This number is much higher than the number of corridors listed by the Project Elephant division of the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change in 2023.
- The MoEFCC division had identified 20 corridors: 15 located within the State and five inter-state corridors connecting with forests of Karnataka and Kerala.
- The synchronised census in 2023 indicated an estimated population of 2,961 elephants in the State.
- Elephants are distributed across 20 of the 26 forest divisions in Tamil Nadu, covering 9217.13 sq.km.
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