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- The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) rolled out the ‘Gaj Yatra’ from Tura, the principal town of Garo Hills of Meghalaya.
- It was organized by the Wildlife Trust of India in collaboration with the State Forest Department.
- ‘Gaj Yatra’, a “journey celebrating India’s national heritage animal”, aims at securing 100 elephant corridors across India.
- Four of these are in Meghalaya, including the Siju-Rewak corridor that some 1,000 elephants use to travel between the Balpakram and Nokrek National Parks in the State.
- It is an 18-month-long national campaign aimed to protect elephants in 12 elephant range states.
- It was launched in August 2017 by Environment and Forest Minister Harsh Vardhan on the occasion of World Elephant Day 2017 of August 12.
- The event involves taking an elephant mascot across districts frequented by jumbo herds for generating awareness among the people.
- The aim of this project is to rehabilitate people affected by man-elephant conflict in corridor areas while ensuring uninterrupted movement of elephants between key habitats.
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