New study identifies important elephant connectivity areas

The average size of protected areas in India is less than 300 sq. km, comparable to the average home range of a single elephant herd

A new study has identified important areas and found that the trunked animals prefer areas close to forests with low human population densities.

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Divya Vasudev and Varun R. Goswami of Conservation Initiatives, a Northeast-based NGO, collected data from the people residing in the elephant landscapes and incorporated them in the newly-developed model called randomised shortest path (RSP).