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Tamil Nadu Elephant Death Audit Framework
November 23 , 2022
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- This is the first of its kind initiative in the country
- Tamil Nadu’s Forest Department has introduced an elephant death audit framework to put in place a more detailed and transparent process for recording and monitoring elephant deaths in the State.
- It prescribes a systematic standard protocol for conducting post-mortem to determine the reasons for death of an elephant.
- It will help to study the circumstances of preventable and unnatural deaths and formulate measures to prevent them.
- It will be applicable all over Tamil Nadu for the death of elephants in the wild.
- It has to be uniformly followed in all wildlife areas and territorial divisions.
- India is home to over two-thirds of the World’s Asian elephant population.
- Incredibly, they live alongside people across much of India, with only about 20 per cent of their range inside protected areas.
- Yet their population is stable or even increasing in some regions.
- Elephants are among the most long-lived mammals, with a life expectancy of around 50 years in the wild, and a generation length of 22 years.
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