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Kallar elephant corridor in the Western Ghats, India: trend of human interface vis-à-vis feasibility of wildlife-friendly flyover and land acquisition

By Neha Midha , N. Krishna Kumar , D. Boominathan , Samuel Thomas , Chhavi Jain

Book information

Publisher
Current Science
Year
2018
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2908670 bytes)
Series
Elephants
Pages
8\8
Topic
Biology\\Ecology
Time added
2019-01-04 15:38:56
Asian elephantsCoimbatoreConservationElephant corridorhuman-interfaceIndiaTamil Nadutraffic intensityWestern Ghatswildlife-friendly mitigation

Description

The present account from Kallar elephant corridor is a case-history which elucidates that delay in implementing management recommendations leads to unmanageable trends in land-use pattern, traffic intensity, human–elephant interface, and escalation of costs for management options like land acquisition and engineering structures as flyovers or ‘elephant underpass’. Ultimately, a situation may develop where elephants may take their own course of population reduction, fragmentation and shifting of interface problem to new areas.

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