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Indian elephant, Elephas maximus, with just born calf, Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India
Indian elephant, Elephas maximus, with just born calf, Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India


2019-08-29 - Delhi, India , Rishika Pardikar

If you go by the country’s first ever synchronised Elephant Census conducted in 2017, there are 27,312 elephants across 23 states. The 10-year project to develop an immunocontraceptive was approved in 2017, with a budget of Rs10 crore. According to Vinod Mathur, the director of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), the nodal agency for the project, it will “soon be implemented on a pilot basis in a phased manner”.



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