Eight countries with the largest number of elephants met for the first on Tuesday in New Delhi to plot new strategies to protect the animal.
- "Delegates here represent two-thirds of the world's wild elephant population," Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told the inaugural gathering of the Elephant-8 group.
- Hathi mere sathi initiative of MOEF..Campaign mascot is GAJU.
- The meeting was attended by delegates from Botswana, Congo, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Thailand.
India is home to an estimated 25,000 Asian elephants but their numbers are falling due to poaching and habitat destruction
Project Elephant was launched in 1992 by the Government of India Ministry of Environment and Forests to provide financial and technical support of wildlife management efforts by states for their free ranging populations of wild Asian Elephants.
- The project aims to ensure long term survival of viable conservation reliant populations of elephants in their natural habitats by protecting the elephants, their habitats and migration corridors.
- Other goals of Project Elephant are supporting research of the ecology and management of elephants, creating conservation awareness among local people, providing improved veterinary care for captive elephants .
- Project Elephant (PE), a centrally sponsored scheme, was launched in February 1992 to provide financial and technical support to major elephant bearing States in the country for protection of elephants, their habitats and corridors.
- It also seeks to address the issues of human-elephant conflict and welfare of domesticated elephants.
- The Project is being implemented in 13 States / UTs, namely, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Uttranchal, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal
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