CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -India’s first elephant death audit framework introduced by Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu’s Forest Department has introduced an elephant death audit framework to put in place a more detailed and transparent process for recording and monitoring elephant deaths in the State.

Detailed explanation-2: -Notes: Tamil Nadu has launched the ‘Tamil Nadu Elephant Death Audit Framework’ to document reasons for elephant deaths for better accountability. According to media reports, out of the 131 elephant deaths recorded in Tamil Nadu’s forest divisions between January 2021 and March 2022, only 13 were human-induced.

Detailed explanation-3: -WWF supports human-elephant conflict mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and awareness-building among local communities in two elephant habitats in the Eastern Himalayas, the North Bank Landscape and the Kaziranga Karbi-Anglong Landscape, and in the Nilgiris Eastern Ghats Landscape in South India.