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The Tamil Nadu authorities has formed a high-level adept committeeto make a broad Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the capture, translocation, release, and post-release monitoring of chaotic elephants and different wildlife species.
The determination follows concerns raised implicit the decease of 2 translocated elephants successful caller months that underscored the request for a technological and elaborate reappraisal of the existent protocols.
In an authoritative release, the authorities said it remains committed to technological wildlife conservation, humane absorption of chaotic animals, and ensuring nationalist safety, noting that translocation is carried retired lone for struggle mitigation oregon the extortion of quality life.
The authorities said the caller elephant deaths, which are inactive nether investigation, prompted a reassessment of the procedures. In response, a State-level adept committee has been constituted. It is made up of elder Forest Department officers, wildlife veterinarians, and world experts.
The committee comprises A. Udhayan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Director of the Advanced Institute for Wildlife Conservation (AIWC), arsenic Chairperson; Anurag Mishra, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Special Secretary; N. Vengatesh Prabhu, District Forest Officer, Gudalur Division; K. Kalaivanan, Forest Veterinary Officer astatine the Srivilliputhur Megamalai Tiger Reserve; Rajesh, Forest Veterinary Assistant Surgeon astatine the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve; and N. Baskaran, Assistant Professor astatine A.V.C. College, Mayiladuthurai.
The committee has besides been authorised to co-opt further experts, including behavioural ecologists and Geographic Information System (GIS) specialists, if necessary.
The committee has been tasked with reviewing the caller decease of translocated elephants, evaluating the existent protocols successful enactment with nationalist and planetary technological guidelines, and identifying areas that necessitate strengthening.
It volition besides formulate a elaborate and implementable SOP governing each aspects of wildlife translocation, particularly that of elephants, to nutrient a model that could service arsenic a exemplary astatine the nationalist level. The authorities has acceptable a two-month deadline for the committee to taxable its study and draught SOP.
