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Crested serpent eagle at Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary Indian giant squirrel at Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary. Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary is home to wide variety of wild animals. During a waterhole census in May 2022, Indian elephant, sloth bear, golden jackal, barking deer, wild boar, porcupine, mouse deer, langur, pangolin, Indian giant squirrel and mongooses were spotted. [2]
Koderma Wildlife Sanctuary is located around and is close to the Gautam Budha Wildlife Sanctuary in the Gaya district of It is spread over an area of 150.62 square kilometres (58.15 sq mi).
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.
The South Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are home to nearly 44% of the elephants, 35% of the tigers and 31% of the leopards in India. [10] The state of Karnataka alone is home to 22% of the elephants, 18% of the tigers and 14% of the leopards in India.
Jadugora or Jadugoda is the headquarters of Uranium Corporation of India Limited (A Govt of India Enterprise). It was established in the late 1960s due to presence of rich ore of Uranium. The Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. (UCIL) recently completed its project of uranium Mining and Mill at Narwapahar, Jharkhand.
Palkot Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Gumla and Simdega district of Jharkhand. It was established in 1990. It covers an area around 760 km 2 of which 182.83 km 2 is forest area. [1] It is a rugged area, consisting partly of flat-topped hills called pat and partly of an undulating plateau, in the south-western portion of Chota Nagpur Plateau.
Additionally, there are 33 Elephant Reserves covering 80,778 km 2 (31,189 sq mi) under the Project Elephant, which may overlap with the wildlife sanctuaries and tiger reserves. [4] [5] [6] Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu was established in 1936 as India's first bird sanctuary.
[F] In 2008, another elephant also named "Osama bin Laden" – that caused more than 11 fatalities and dozens of injuries – was shot dead in Jharkhand. [G] [H] [11] Another, known as "Laden", killed 5 people before being caught and dying in captivity in 2019. [1] A herd of wild elephants in an elephant-friendly tea garden in India.