{"id":150362,"date":"2021-12-02T20:09:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T14:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=150362"},"modified":"2021-12-11T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T11:49:07","slug":"1160-elephants-killed-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/1160-elephants-killed-in-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20181,160 elephants killed in a decade\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A document accessed from the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change(MoEFCC) has provided the data on the death of Elephants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the data provided by the document?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-150417\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/08c6eb4e_4565648_101_mr.jpg?resize=300%2C197&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/08c6eb4e_4565648_101_mr.jpg?resize=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/08c6eb4e_4565648_101_mr.jpg?w=683&amp;ssl=1 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: The Hindu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 1,160 elephants were killed in the country for reasons other than natural causes in the 10 years up to December 31,2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Electrocution claimed the most of the lives of Elephants.This was followed by Train Hits, Poaching and Poisoning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karnataka and Odisha reported the highest number of Elephant deaths due to electrocution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among elephant casualties due to train hits, Assam stood first followed by West Bengal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Odisha stood first in the highest number of Elephant deaths due to poaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, Assam reported the highest number of elephant deaths due to poisoning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Elephants Population and Conservation measures<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India had a total of 29,964 wild elephants as per an estimate done in 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The southern region comprising Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra accounted for the highest population \u2014 14,612 elephants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Permanent Coordination Committee has also been constituted between the Ministry of Railways and the MoEFCC for preventing elephant deaths due to train hits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>1,160 elephants killed in a decade<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express on 1st December 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? A document accessed from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change(MoEFCC) has provided the data on the death of Elephants. What is the data provided by the document? Source: The Hindu Around 1,160 elephants were killed in the country for reasons other than natural causes in the 10 years up&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/1160-elephants-killed-in-a-decade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u20181,160 elephants killed in a decade\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[1355,8927,10521,10500],"class_list":["post-150362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-biodiversity","tag-biodiversity-conservation","tag-elephant","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704926338},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}