72 Jumbos Spotted On Day 1 Of Census
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 32
No. 5,
May 2012
Bhadra wildlife division conservator of forests Krishna Udupudi told TOI that they have divided the sanctuary into 33 blocks and each block has been entrusted to three people, including two from the department and one volunteer.
In all the blocks, on the first day of counting they have been asked to record direct sighting of the elephants and also to look into the age and sex ratio. Each team has walked minimum 15 km to spot the elephants and at Lakkavalli, which is very near to Bhadra backwaters, they have found 43 elephants. Fifteen elephants were spotted at Tanigebylu, 10 at Muthodi range and four at Hebbe.
Krishna said they are yet to receive details of the elephants, including sex ratio and number of adult, sub adult and juvenile elephants. Read the full report here.
Source: S. Girijashankar, TNN, Chikmagalur.
