Bangalore, August 12: The need to conserve the traditional elephant habitat in South India had been stressed in a report by an ecological reconnaissance party.The party toured the proposed Jawahar National Park, a 2,000 square kms, sprawling area comprising the Bandipur and the Nagarahole national parks in Karnataka, Mudumalai in Tamil Nadu, and Wynaad in Kerala.The party, which covered the entire area by foot, during the monsoon of 1975, for mapping the areas of wild life concentration and for studying environmental factors affecting wild life urged strong action, on many fronts, to conserve this finest of elephant forests in the country.The study showed the Kabini reservoir, along with the encroachments in the vested forest of Pulpully (in Kerala) had drastically reduced the area of wild life habitat and had almost completely split the habitat into two, severing many traditional migration routes of elephants. Published - August 13, 2026 04:08 am IST
From The Hindu Archives, August 13, 1976: Kabini project has cut off migration routes of elephants
From The Hindu Archives, August 13, 1976: The need to conserve the traditional elephant habitat in South India had been stressed in a report by an ecological reconnaissance party.
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