Bhubaneswar: In a first, the tiger and elephant census in Odisha will be conducted simultaneously in 2022 in accordance with the Centre’s proposal, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) Sashi Paul informed on Thursday.
Briefing the mediapersons here, the PCCF said the state Forest department is waiting for the mode of the simultaneous census from the Centre.
Paul said that the 2017 census had tracked 1976 pachyderms in the state.
He attributed their deaths to old age, disease and unnatural deaths like electrocution, train mishap and poaching.
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