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Elephants and India's other land mammals as species, from rhinos and wolves to primates, small cats and bats: their status, range and protection, and the counts and corridors they depend on. Prelims has asked about elephant herds, gestation and State populations.
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Elephant
Elephant corridors
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An elephant corridor is the part of the range that no reserve boundary covers, and it is where the animal and the farmer meet. The Supreme Court has now ordered the whole national map of them resurveyed.
- The 2023 assessment validated 150 corridors, and that is the map now being redrawn.
- Nineteen of them cross State lines and six reach into Nepal, which is why a single State cannot settle a route on its own.
- The Court gave eight weeks for a report on removing obstructions.
- It held that no State may block a traditional route over crop damage.
- It asked the Centre to check reports of fireballs, torches and spikes, banned in 2018, still driving elephants away.
East Central52
North East48
Southern32
Northern18
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