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.