Keywords
Eastern Ghats
Hosur Reserve Forest
Dharmapuri Reserve Forest
Population
Conservation Issues
Human-Elephant Conflict
Lantana camara
How to Cite
Abstract
We discuss the state of affairs of the Asian Elephant in the Hosur and Dharmapuri forest divisions based on studies undertaken from November 2006 to June 2007, and also through a comparison of the situation prevailing there as reported from an earlier study in the late 1980s to early 1990s. The situation of elephants in the two divisions is alarming due to the decline in elephant population from dispersals and unnatural deaths, skewed sex-ratio in favour of females, severe habitat loss and degradation, proliferation of the exotic weed Lantana camara, problems of human-elephant conflict, and from other human-related pressures on the forests.References
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