Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh on Thursday sounded an alarm over the declining elephant population in India, stressing that protecting and preserving an animal deeply embedded in the country’s religious, cultural, and ecological fabric is a national responsibility.

“The elephant faces a crisis, perhaps not of extinction but of attrition. The threats come from changing land use, loss of traditional habitats, fragmentation of elephant movement pathways & corridors both within and outside protected areas, pressures from mining and infrastructure projects, invasive plant species, and conflict with humans”, Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X.

The Congress leader’s comments come a day after the release of the elephant census report titled “Status of Elephants in India: DNA-bas

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