29 August 2019


Are there too many elephants in India? That’s the question at the crux of a debate between wildlife experts on whether the government should use contraceptive measures to manage the population of four species including elephants.

If you go by the country’s first ever synchronised Elephant Census conducted in 2017, there are 27,312 elephants across 23 states.

But experts have argued that this number does not give a complete picture, mainly because of issues with the different methods used to estimate the population of elephants. The government itself said in the 2017 census report that the results should be interpreted with caution.

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