Wildlife circuit bungalows to be closed for elephant survey

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The Wildlife Conservation Department today said all circuit bungalows of the department would be closed for three-days in September for tourists due to a survey of wild elephants.

It said the country-wide survey would be carried out on September 23,24 and 25.

The department informed that it would not be reserving any circuit bungalow for the tourists on the three days.(TK)

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Chari Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:55 PM

Such surveys are a waste of public money. All previous surveys were of no avail. What is needed is to establish elephant corridors between protected regions to form an integrated system of protected areas. The Human Elephant conflict will be solved through this mechanism

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