❖ A committee was constituted by the Tamil Nadu government to identify elephant corridors in the State.

❖ It has brought out a list of 42 elephant corridors and has invited comments from the public.

❖ This number is much higher than the number of corridors listed by the Project Elephant division of the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change in 2023.

❖ The MoEFCC division had identified 20 corridors: 15 located within the State and five inter-state corridors connecting with forests of Karnataka and Kerala.

 ❖ The synchronised census in 2023 indicated an estimated population of 2,961 elephants in the State.

❖ Elephants are distributed across 20 of the 26 forest divisions in Tamil Nadu, covering 9217.13 sq.km