Centre to conduct combined elephant and tiger survey this year
8 June 2022 The
Central government will for the first time this year present a unified
count of the tiger, leopard and elephant populations of the country,
according to officials in the Union Environment Ministry.
The
tiger survey is usually held once in four years and elephants are
counted once in five years. According to the most recent 2018-19
survey, there were 2,967 tigers in India. According to the last count
in 2017, there were 29,964 elephants in India.
Last year,
Bhupender Yadav, Union Environment Minister, on August 12, which is
celebrated as World Elephant Day, made public the population estimation
protocol to be adopted in the all-India elephant and tiger population
estimation in 2022.
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