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Project Elephant is a wildlife conservation movement initiated in India to protect the endangered Indian elephant.The project was initiated in 1992 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of the Government of India to provide financial and technical support to the states for wildlife management of free-ranging elephant populations.
An image of the elephant keeper in India riding his elephant from Tashrih al-aqvam (1825). Samponiet Reserve, Aceh Mahout with a young elephant at Elephant Nature Park, Thailand A young elephant and his mahout, Kerala, India. A mahout is an elephant rider, trainer, or keeper. [1] Mahouts were used since antiquity for both civilian and military use.
Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) [65] [66] 22 October 2010 [67] Indian elephant is the largest terrestrial mammal in India and a cultural symbol throughout its range, appearing in various religious traditions and mythologies. [68] [69] It is native to mainland Asia with nearly three-fourth of the population found in India.
The Indian elephant is a protected species under Schedule I of the Indian Wild Life Protection Act, 1972. [33] Project Elephant was launched in 1992 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests of Government of India to provide financial and technical support of wildlife management efforts by the states.
There was once an elephant named Gajendra who lived in a garden called Ṛtumat, which was created by Varuna. This garden was located on Mount Trikuta, the "Three-Peaked Mountain". Gajendra ruled over all the other elephants in the herd. One day, as usual, he went to the lake near by to pick lotus flowers to offer prayer to Vishnu.
Yali (IAST: Yāḷi), [1] (Tamil: யாழி) also called Vyāla (Sanskrit: व्याल), [2] is a South Indian mythological creature, portrayed with the head and the body of a lion, the trunk and the tusks of an elephant, and sometimes bearing equine features. [3]
Wild elephants in Munnar. Elephants found in Kerala, the Indian elephants (Elephas maximus indicus), are one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant.Since 1986, Asian elephants have been listed as endangered by IUCN as the population has declined by at least 50% over the last three generations, estimated to be between 25,600 and 32,750 in the wild.
In Ancient India, a number of treatises were written about caring and management of elephants, which included the following: Palakapya's Hastyayurveda dealing with the management of good health of elephants. Matangalila by Nilakantha; Sculpture of Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity