| Question and answer session Q1: How valid are the census figures? Increases or decreases tend to mean that earlier surveys were not as good as later ones. Is this the case in India? A1: Later figures are better of course, but India has been doing good censuses for some time, at least since the 1970s. Q2: How are elephants used in agriculture? A2: They are used to plough fields, especially in Andra Pradesh. Q3: Are elephants used for patrols in the national parks? A3: Yes, for anti-poaching campaigns or in areas where other forms of transport are not possible. The number of elephants used could easily be doubled. Project Elephant will provide finance to purchase unemployed elephants in the areas where they will be used. Q4: You stated that you'd like to encourage the trade in live elephants and for more troublesome wild elephants to be captured. Don't you think it would lead to more elephants in the wild being captured for sale, not just troublesome elephants? Who would monitor the trade? A4: I don't think it would be a problem because the existing law works well, only target elephants, i.e. troublesome elephants, are captured. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- S.S. Bist - Inspector General of Forest, and Director, Project Elephant, New Delhi (Working Group leader) Jacob V. Cheeran - Member of the Steering Committee (Project Elephant), Trichur, Kerala [10] Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttranchal [11] Expert on captive elephants, Guwahati, Assam [12] Director, TRAFFIC-India, New Delhi. This report was prepared by the above members of the working group which was constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. The views and recommendations in this report are those of the working group and do not necessarily convey any approval or endorsement by the Government of India. [13] From Wildlife Protection (Karnataka) Rules, 1973 Note: Tables, Pictures and Annexures, if any, are excluded here |
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