eleblog

“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 , viz. Andhra pradesh , Arunachal Pradesh , Assam , Jharkhand , Karnataka , Kerala , Meghalaya , Nagaland , Orissa , Tamil Nadu , Uttranchal , Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.” - PIB Press Release

“Tamil Nadu government has decided to build a public road right across the Sirur reserve forest in the Nilgiris. That`s right across Asia`s largest elephant reserve and is bound to hamper their habitat. ” - NDTV.com

“To prevent elephants being hit by speeding trains, the ministries of environment and forests and of railways are considering setting up barbed wire fencing along several hundred kilometres of rail tracks in the Western Ghat forests straddling the borders of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. The move comes after the death of a pregnant elephant, along with two other elephants, when they were hit by a train passing between Pothanur and Madhukkari stations, about 20 km from the textile town of Coimbatore, in the early hours of Feb 4.” - Thaindian News

“Indian villagers in the southern state of Tamil Nadu awoke to find a thirsty elephant trapped in the village’s well.” - WFRV Green Bays

“An elephant that was found badly wounded near Wodapatti, a place near the Karnataka border, last week is battling helplessly for its life.” - Thaindian News

“Environmentalists and wildlife activists have pressed the panic button in the elephant corridor connecting Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu where the Asian tusker is under siege.” - Sify.com

“Kapil is one of three tuskers — kumkis (tamed elephants) in foresters’ parlance — which have been pressed into service in the jungles adjoining the borders of Tamil Nadu and Kerala to drive away a herd of four wild elephants.” - The Telegraph

“The Tamil Nadu government was taking steps to acquire the land encroached by private parties along the forest fringes across the state, in a bid to curb straying of wild elephants to human inhabited areas.” - The Hindu

“With the onset of the pilgrim season in Sabarimala hill shrine, elephants in the nearby jungles were moving to the adjacent forests of Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari district, forest officials said on Saturday.”- The Hindu News

“Forest officials in Tamil Nadu have initiated a drive to regularize and register captive pachyderms in the State by implanting microchips into their skin. ” - Daily India

“The wild tusker which gored to death the watcher, Balakrishnan, 43, of the Forest School in Walayar on Thursday was reported to have gone back to the forests of Tamil Nadu on Thursday night itself.” - Newindpress.com

“A central government funded census of wild elephants will be conducted in the forests of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for three days beginning May 8. ” - The Times of India

“A central government funded census of wild elephants will be conducted in the forests of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for three days beginning May 8.” - Earth Times

“The Tamil Nadu government Wednesday said it would acquire 398 acres of private land and create an elephant corridor through Coimbatore and Nilgiri districts.” - India eNews

“The Tamil Nadu government Wednesday said it would acquire 398 acres of private land and create an elephant corridor through Coimbatore and Nilgiri districts.” - IndianMuslims

“Meanwhile, the STF said they were consolidating their power in the already captured 12 LTTE camps since January 4 by a military offensive code named “Niyathai Jaya”- Victory is Certain- in which they discovered that the Tamil separatist group were sustaining their movement by felling illicit timber in forest reserves destroying the environment, killing wild elephants for ivory for smuggling, and growing large plantations of cannabis for drug running following their one time friend, well-wisher and political supporter – the Tamil Nadu forest outlaw Veerappan.” - ToTheCenter

“The annual rejuvenation camp for captive and temple elephants in Tamil Nadu would begin at Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park in neighbouring Nilgiris district, from November 21.” - Rediff

“The population of elephants in Tamil Nadu forests has recorded an increase, from 3,600 in 2002 to 4,250 in the 2005 census, a senior forest official said today.” - Chennai Online News Service