India will move to a system to count tigers and elephants as part of a common survey from 2022. The tiger survey is held once in four years and elephants are counted once in five years.
Context
India will move to a system to count tigers and elephants as part of a common survey from 2022. The tiger survey is held once in four years and elephants are counted once in five years.
- The announcement was made on World Elephant Day.
About the counting survey for elephant
- Since 2006, the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, an affiliated body to the Environment Ministry, has a standardized protocol in place to estimate tiger numbers.
- Elephant numbers are largely relying on States directly counting the number of elephants.
- According to the last count in 2017, there were 29,964 elephants in India.
Conservation Status
- Asian elephants are listed as "Endangered" animals on the IUCN Red List of threatened species.
- More than 60 % of the population is held in India.
- Indian Elephant is also listed in Appendix I of the Convention of the Migratory species in the Conference of Parties of CMS 13 at Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat in February 2020.
- World Elephant Day is also celebrated to bring the attention of various stakeholders to support various conservation policies to help elephants.
- The elephant is alsoa Natural Heritage Animal of India.
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