The synchronised elephant census 2023 will start from Wednesday acrossTamil Nadu,KeralaandKarnataka. Around 40 teams have been constituted in the Coimbatore forest division to carry out the three-day census.
As per the nationwide syncrhonised elephant census 2017, it was estimated that Nadu had 2,761 elephants.
The Karnataka forest department expressed plans to conduct a joint syncrhornised elephant census with Tamil Nadu. The Tamil Nadu forest department then asked the Kerala forest department to join the census.
According to sources, the Tamil Nadu forest department has identified 708 blocks from 26 forest divisions in the state for the census. As many as 42 blocks from seven forest ranges in the Coimbatore forest division were identified. Each block would have a team consisting of a forest department staff, anti-poaching watchers and two representatives of NGOs or college students.