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20/11/22 19:20 PM IST

Tamil Nadu introduces India’s first elephant death audit framework

In News 
  • In a first of its kind initiative in India, Tamil Nadu has brought out the ‘Tamil Nadu Elephant Death Audit Framework’ to document reasons for elephant deaths for better accountability. 
Objectives 
  • The objectives of framework are threefold —
  • prescribing a Systematic Standard Protocol for conducting post-mortem to determine the reason(s) for death of an elephant;
  • to study and understand the circumstances in cases of preventable and unnatural deaths of elephants and
  • formulate remedial measures for prevention of unnatural and preventive deaths by conducting periodical death audits and monitoring these over time.
About Framework 
  • The framework will be helpful to collect mortality assessment data with high quality and credibility through a transparent process. The framework and procedural steps could assist wildlife managers and ecologists to ensure accountability, says the Tamil Nadu Elephant Death Audit Framework document.
  • India is home to over two-thirds of the World’s Asian elephant population. Incredibly, they live alongside people across much of India, with only about 20 per cent of their range inside protected areas. Yet their population is stable or even increasing in some regions.
  • Wild elephant mortality occurs for several reasons, mostly natural but at times unnatural and preventable. Elephants are among the most long-lived mammals, with a life expectancy of around 50 years in the wild, and a generation length of 22 years. With the rapid anthropogenic change, the context of wild elephants’ lives alongside people is also changing, and their corresponding life expectancy is unknown.
Source- Hindustan Times 

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