{"id":234598,"date":"2023-03-27T19:27:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=234598"},"modified":"2023-03-27T19:27:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:57:29","slug":"dna-profiling-of-270-captive-elephants-completed-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dna-profiling-of-270-captive-elephants-completed-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA profiling of 270 captive elephants completed: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cDNA profiling of 270 captive elephants completed: Govt\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Indian Express <\/b>on 27th March 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The DNA profiling of 270 of the 2,675 captive elephants in the country has been completed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> India is home to 20% of the global captive Asian elephant population.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is <\/b>DNA profiling?<\/b><\/h2>\n

DNA profiling is a method to differentiate between individuals of the same species using samples of their Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).<\/span><\/p>\n

DNA profiling of elephants was started in August 2022 for Gaj Soochna App. <\/span>This will act as the \u2018Adhaar card of captive elephants\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Note:<\/b> Gaj Soochna is a mobile application developed to record the details of captive elephants across India. The centralized database will include physical and genetic information of every captive elephant individual of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

The DNA profiling process <\/span>is being carried out in collaboration with the <\/span>Wildlife Institute of India.<\/b><\/p>\n

What are the benefits of DNA Profiling of elephants?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Firstly,<\/b> forest officers can identify each elephant and track it and therefore its transfer, which often happens in the case of captive elephants, can be recorded.<\/span><\/p>\n

Secondly, <\/b>more focus can be put on elephant care \u2013 with unique information about elephants.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> Unlike Project Tiger, Project Elephant looks at the welfare and health of captive elephants as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Project Elephant?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

About Elephant Population in India<\/b><\/h2>\n

India has the largest and the most stable population of Asian elephants, where more than 60% of wild Asian elephants are in India.<\/span><\/p>\n

The population of 29,964 elephants as recorded in the last elephant census conducted in 2017 speaks volumes of the passion for wildlife conservation ingrained in Indian culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

As per the Elephant Census (2017), Karnataka has the highest number of elephants (6,049), followed by Assam (5,719) and Kerala (3,054).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cDNA profiling of 270 captive elephants completed: Govt\u201d published in Indian Express on 27th March 2023. What is the News? The DNA profiling of 270 of the 2,675 captive elephants in the country has been completed. Note: India is home to 20% of the global captive Asian… Continue reading DNA profiling of 270 captive elephants completed: Govt<\/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":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-234598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700803069,"cached_date":1704232918},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234598","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=234598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}