Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Elephant census in south India

Kerala Online
May 7, 2007

Thiruvananthapuram: A central government funded census of wild elephants will be conducted in the forests of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for three days beginning May 8.

The census team includes officials from the state forest department, members from the local community and elephant lovers.

P.S. Essa, who led the Kerala census operations in 1993, 1997 and 2002, said the elephant census team has introduced significant changes in census operation and the survey is now based on more scientific principles.

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