All India Elephant and Tiger Population Estimation Exercise to Be Done in Convergence for The First Time In 2022, Elephant Conservation Intricately Linked to Ecosystems Conservation: Ashwini Kumar Chaubey
(Judicial Quest News Network)
Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Bhupender Yadav today released the population estimation protocol to be adopted in the exercise to be taken up for the All India elephant and tiger population estimation in 2022. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), for the first time is converging elephant and tiger population estimation, the protocol for which was released today on the occasion of World Elephant Day.
Speaking on the occasion, the Union Environment Minister stressed on the involvement of local and indigenous people in the Conservation of elephants and said that a bottom up approach is the way forward, which will also help in minimizing Human-Elephant Conflict as well.
Shri Yadav said that there has been a pressing need to improve and harmonize the population estimation methods along more scientific lines in various states across India and expressed happiness that the Ministry for the first time is converging both elephant and tiger population estimation.
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Minister of State, Shri Ashwinin Kumar Chaubey while addressing the gathering stated that Saving Elephants is saving forests and saving forests leads to saving the entire ecosystems and exhorted all especially the youth to nurture nad carry forward the traditional ethos of Indian culture of living in harmony with Nature and wildlife.
The programme also witnessed release of the fourth edition of the quarterly newsletter “Trumpet” of the Elephant Division of the Ministry by both the dignitaries. To highlight on the various conservation regimes adopted across country by the State Forest Departments as well as institutions and organizations, Project Elephant Division and Elephant Cell releases the quarterly newsletter “Trumpet”. This edition of the newsletter articulates the need for landscape approach for synchronized elephant population enumeration.