{"id":150918,"date":"2021-12-04T21:46:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=150918"},"modified":"2021-12-11T18:08:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T12:38:14","slug":"corridors-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/corridors-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Corridors of death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News: <\/strong>The recent deaths of Elephants in Tamil Nadu and Assam in train collisions has again highlighted the gaps in efforts to reduce man-animal conflicts<\/strong> in the country.<\/p>\n

Of the 29,964 elephants in India, the majority are in the southern region.<\/p>\n

What are the reasons behind it?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Project Elephant division (MoEF&CC) reported unnatural killing of 1,160 elephants<\/a><\/strong><\/span> over 11 years ending December 2020.<\/p>\n

Railway accidents<\/strong> accounted for 186 cases. C&AG<\/strong> in its latest compliance audit report on the Ministry of Railways has confirmed greater number of casualties getting reported are in elephant passages.<\/p>\n

Other causes being poaching<\/strong> for 169 and poisoning<\/strong> for 64 cases of deaths out of 1160.<\/p>\n

What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

To prevent electrocution <\/strong>– Installing hanging solar-powered fences, as has been planned in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, can help save elephants from electric shock.<\/p>\n

-The authorities should ensure that there are no illegal electric fences or barbed wire fences. Instead, it can be replaced with the solar-powered ones.<\/p>\n

Preventing train hits <\/strong>– Planting ‘citronella’ and ‘lemon grass’, as done in Golaghat district (Assam), to deter elephants.<\/p>\n

Participation of local communities<\/strong> is crucial for conservation of local ecosystem. Everyone, and especially those living close to elephant corridor, must be conveyed the critical role elephants play in biodiversity conservation.<\/p>\n

Eco-corridor<\/strong>: The ministries of Railway, & Environment Ministry must cooperate to quickly complete projects of elevated-passes <\/strong>(Eco-corridor) and under-passes <\/strong>for safe wildlife crossings.<\/p>\n

– C&AG reported that after the construction of underpasses and overpasses in the areas of East Central and Northeast Frontier Railways, there was no death reported.<\/p>\n

The authorities should also work upon other recommendations made by the C&AG.<\/strong> These are:<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> Periodic review of identification of elephant passages<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> More sensitisation programmes for railway staff<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> Standardisation of track signage<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> Installation of an animal detection system<\/strong> (transmitter collars) and \u2018honey bee\u2019 sound-emitting devices<\/strong> near all identified elephant passages.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201cCorridors of death<\/strong>\u201d published in The Hindu<\/strong> on 4th<\/sup> Dec 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: The recent deaths of Elephants in Tamil Nadu and Assam in train collisions has again highlighted the gaps in efforts to reduce man-animal conflicts in the country. Of the 29,964 elephants in India, the majority are in the southern region. What are the reasons behind it? Project Elephant division (MoEF&CC) reported unnatural killing of… Continue reading Corridors of death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,4182,9],"tags":[1355,8927,10521,216,10498],"class_list":["post-150918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-biodiversity","tag-biodiversity-conservation","tag-elephant","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704812875},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150918","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\/10335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}