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Kallar Elephant Corridor in the Western Ghats, India:Trend of Human Interface Vis-a-vis Feasibility of Wildlife-Friendly Flyover and Land Acquisition


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1 WWF-India, 172 B, Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110 003, India
 

The present account from Kallar elephant corridor is a case-history which elucidates that delay in implementing management recommendations leads to unmanageable trends in land-use pattern, traffic intensity, human–elephant interface, and escalation of costs for management options like land acquisition and engineering structures as flyovers or ‘elephant underpass’. Ultimately, a situation may develop where elephants may take their own course of population reduction, fragmentation and shifting of interface problem to new areas.

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Elephant Corridor, Human-interface, Traffic Intensity, Wildlife-Friendly Mitigation.
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Authors

Neha Midha
WWF-India, 172 B, Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110 003, India
N. Krishna Kumar
WWF-India, 172 B, Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110 003, India
D. Boominathan
WWF-India, 172 B, Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110 003, India
Samuel Thomas
WWF-India, 172 B, Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110 003, India
Chhavi Jain
WWF-India, 172 B, Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110 003, India

Abstract


The present account from Kallar elephant corridor is a case-history which elucidates that delay in implementing management recommendations leads to unmanageable trends in land-use pattern, traffic intensity, human–elephant interface, and escalation of costs for management options like land acquisition and engineering structures as flyovers or ‘elephant underpass’. Ultimately, a situation may develop where elephants may take their own course of population reduction, fragmentation and shifting of interface problem to new areas.

Keywords


Elephant Corridor, Human-interface, Traffic Intensity, Wildlife-Friendly Mitigation.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv115%2Fi12%2F2211-2218