Elephants 'sighted' in Maharashtra after 100 years
Aditya Ghosh
Hindustan Times October 24, 2006
While the Government of Maharashtra has been allowed to add elephants in its variety of wildlife 'officially' after a century of no records of the animal in the state, the forest officials are busy inviting experts from different states to teach them and the villagers how to tackle these creatures. Not only villagers in south Maharashtra will get a crash course on how to tackle the tuskers which have, after crossing the Karnataka border entered the state and become permanent residents, the domesticated elephants can also be looked after with better care.
The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has strongly recommended to include Maharashtra in the ambit of Project Elephant as the elephant population remained stable in the state for over one year.
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