Lok Sabha Question No. 118 (STARRED), answered on 2017-12-22
Subject: Unnatural Deaths/Killings of Wild Animals
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: R.P. MARUTHARAJAA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION No. *118

TO BE ANSWERED ON 22.12.2017

## Unnatural Deaths/Killings of Wild Animals

## *118.   SHRI R.P. MARUTHARAJAA:

Will  the  Minister  of  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND  CLIMATE  CHANGE  be  pleased  to state:

- (a) whether the Government has maintained any data regarding the number of lions, tigers, elephants and rhinos in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/ UT-wise including Tamil Nadu;
- (c) whether  the  Government  maintains  any  records  of  unnatural  deaths/killings  of  wild animals in the country; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof indicating the number of such wild animals died/killed during the last two years and the current year, State/UT-wise including Tamil Nadu?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE (DR. HARSH VARDHAN)

- (a) to (d) A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a), (b), (c)  AND (d) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *118 REGARDING 'UNNATURAL DEATHS/KILLINGS  OF  WILD  ANIMALS'  BY SHRI  R.  P.  MARUTHARAJAA  DUE FOR REPLY ON 22.12.2017.

- (a)&(b) Census of major flagship species is undertaken at the State-level by the respective State/Union  Territory  Governments  periodically.  However  census  of  tiger  and elephant  is  undertaken  at  the  national  level  once  in  every  four  and  five  years respectively. State-wise estimated population of  lions, tigers, elephants and rhinos including in  Tamil  Nadu    are  given in Annexure -I (a),  Annexure -I (b), Annexure -I (c) and Annexure -I (d ).
- (c)&(d) Reports  of  death  of  wild  animals  particularly  tigers  and  elephants  have  been received in the Ministry from the different parts of the country. As per the report of National Tiger Conservation Authority and Project Elephant, state-wise details of, tigers and elephants which have died, including Tamil Nadu during last two years and the current year, are at Annexure-II (a) and Annexure -II  (b). However, the death of other animals is not collated in the Ministry.

Annexure-I (a)

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) AND (b) OF LOK SABHA STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  *118  REGARDING  'UNNATURAL  DEATHS/KILLINGS OF  WILD  ANIMALS'  BY SHRI  R.  P.  MARUTHARAJAA  DUE  FOR  REPLY  ON 22.12.2017.

Asiatic Lion population Census from the state of Gujarat

|   2001 |   327 |
|--------|-------|
|   2005 |   359 |
|   2010 |   411 |
|   2015 |   523 |

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) AND (b) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *118 REGARDING 'UNNATURAL DEATHS/KILLINGS OF WILD ANIMALS' BY SHRI R. P. MARUTHARAJAA DUE FOR REPLY ON 22.12.2017.

Details of tiger estimation pertaining to tiger landscapes, State-wise for the years 2010 and 2014

|                                                                      | TIGER POPULATION   | TIGER POPULATION   |                              |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------|--------------------|------------------------------|
| State                                                                | 2010               | 2014               | Increase / Decrease / Stable |
| Shivalik-Gangetic Plain Landscape Complex                            |                    |                    |                              |
| Uttarakhand                                                          | 227 (199-256)      | 340                | Increase                     |
| Uttar Pradesh                                                        | 118 (113-124)      | 117                | Stable                       |
| Bihar                                                                | 8 (-)              | 28                 | Increase                     |
| Shivalik Gangetic                                                    | 353 (320-388)      | 485 (427-543)      | Increase                     |
| Central Indian Landscape Complex and Eastern Ghats Landscape Complex |                    |                    |                              |
| Andhra Pradesh (including Telangana)                                 | 72 (65-79)         | 68                 | Stable                       |
| Chhattisgarh                                                         | 26 (24-27)         | 46                 | Increase                     |
| Madhya Pradesh                                                       | 257 (213-301)      | 308                | Increase                     |
| Maharashtra                                                          | 169 (155-183)      | 190                | Increase                     |
| Odisha                                                               | 32 (20-44)         | 28                 | Stable                       |
| Rajasthan                                                            | 36 (35-37)         | 45                 | Increase                     |
| Jharkhand                                                            | 10 (6-14)          | 3+                 | Decrease*                    |
| Central India                                                        | 601 (518-685)      | 688 (596-780)      | Increase                     |
| Western Ghats Landscape Complex                                      |                    |                    |                              |
| Karnataka                                                            | 300 (280-320)      | 406                | Increase                     |
| Kerala                                                               | 71 (67-75)         | 136                | Increase                     |
| Tamil Nadu                                                           | 163 (153-173)      | 229                | Increase                     |
| Goa                                                                  | -                  | 5                  | Increase                     |
| Western Ghats                                                        | 534 (500-568)      | 776 (685-861)      | Increase                     |
| North Eastern Hills and Brahmaputra Flood Plains                     |                    |                    |                              |
| Assam                                                                | 143 (113-173)      | 167                | Increase                     |
| Arunachal Pradesh                                                    | -                  | 28 ♣               | Increase                     |
| Mizoram                                                              | 5                  | 3+                 | Stable                       |
| North West Bengal                                                    | -                  | 3                  | **                           |
| North East Hills, and Brahmaputra                                    | 148 (118-178)      | 201 (174-212)      | Increase                     |
| Sunderbans                                                           | 70 (64-90)         | 76 (92-96)         | Stable                       |
| TOTAL                                                                | 1706 (1520-1909)   | 2226 (1945-2491)   | Increase                     |

## Annexure-I (c)

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) AND (b) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *118 REGARDING 'UNNATURAL DEATHS/KILLINGS OF WILD ANIMALS' BY SHRI R. P. MARUTHARAJAA DUE FOR REPLY ON 22.12.2017.

## Population of Wild Elephants in India, 2017

| REGION              | STATE                      | ELEPHANT POPULATION   |
|---------------------|----------------------------|-----------------------|
| North-East          | Arunachal Pradesh          | 1614                  |
| North-East          | Assam                      | 5719                  |
| North-East          | Meghalaya                  | 1754                  |
| North-East          | Tripura                    | 102                   |
| North-East          | Nagaland                   | 446                   |
| North-East          | West Bengal (North Region) | 488                   |
| North-East          | Manipur                    | 9                     |
| North-East          | Mizoram                    | 7                     |
| North-East          |                            | 10,139                |
| East Central Region | Odisha                     | 1976                  |
| East Central Region | Jharkhand                  | 679                   |
| East Central Region | Chhattisgarh               | 247                   |
| East Central Region | Bihar                      | 25                    |
| East Central Region | Madhya Pradesh             | 7                     |
| East Central Region | West Bengal (South Region) | 194                   |
| East Central Region |                            | 3128                  |
| North West Region   | Uttarakhand                | 1839                  |
| North West Region   | Uttar Pradesh              | 232                   |
| North West Region   | Haryana                    | 7                     |
| North West Region   | Himachal                   | 7                     |
| North West Region   |                            | 2085                  |
| South Region        | Karnataka                  | 6049                  |
| South Region        | Kerala                     | 3054                  |
| South Region        | Maharashtra                | 6                     |
| South Region        | Andhra Pradesh             | 65                    |
| South Region        | Andaman &Nicobar Islands   | 19                    |
| South Region        | Tamil Nadu                 | 2761                  |
| South Region        |                            | 11960                 |
| GRAND TOTAL         | GRAND TOTAL                | 27312                 |

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) AND (b) OF LOK SABHA STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  *118  REGARDING  'UNNATURAL  DEATHS/KILLINGS OF  WILD  ANIMALS'  BY SHRI  R.  P.  MARUTHARAJAA  DUE  FOR  REPLY  ON 22.12.2017.

## Population of Rhinoceros as reported by States

| Name of state   | No. of rhinoceros (Year of Census)   | No. of rhinoceros (Year of Census)   |
|-----------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Assam           | 2505 (2012)                          | 2624 (2015)                          |
| Uttar Pradesh   | 30                                   | 33 (2017)                            |
| West Bengal     | 229 (2013)                           | 255 (2015)                           |

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) AND (d) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION  NO.  *118  REGARDING  'UNNATURAL  DEATHS/KILLINGS  OF  WILD ANIMALS' BY SHRI R. P. MARUTHARAJAA DUE FOR REPLY ON 22.12.2017.

## Number of tigers which have died due to unnatural causes (including seizures), during last two years and the current year,

| State          | 2015   | 2016   | 2017   |   Total |
|----------------|--------|--------|--------|---------|
| Assam          | 1      | 4      | 7      |      12 |
| Bihar          | -      | 4      | -      |       4 |
| Chhattisgarh   | 1      | 2      | 2      |       5 |
| Delhi          | -      | 2      | -      |       2 |
| Karnataka      | 4      | 3      | 1      |       8 |
| Kerala         | -      | 1      | -      |       1 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6      | 7      | 5      |      18 |
| Maharashtra    | 1      | 2      | 5      |       8 |
| Nagaland       | -      | 1      | -      |       1 |
| Odisha         | 1      | -      | -      |       1 |
| Tamil Nadu     | 1      | 1      | 1      |       3 |
| Telangana      | -      | 1      | -      |       1 |
| Uttar Pradesh  | 4      | 1      | 1      |       6 |
| Uttarakhand    | 2      | 6      | 2      |      10 |
| West Bengal    | -      | 1      | -      |       1 |
| TOTAL          | 21     | 36     | 24     |      81 |

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) AND (d) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION  NO.  *118  REGARDING  'UNNATURAL  DEATHS/KILLINGS  OF  WILD ANIMALS' BY SHRI R. P. MARUTHARAJAA DUE FOR REPLY ON 22.12.2017.

## ELEPHANT CASUALTIES 2015-2017

| S. No.   | State             | 2015-16   | 2016-17   | 2017-18 (upto November, 2017)   |
|----------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|---------------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    | NR        | NR        | NR                              |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh | 0         | NR        | NR                              |
| 3        | Assam             | 9         | 22        | 17                              |
| 4        | Chhattisgarh      | 5         | 3         | NR                              |
| 5        | Jharkhand         | 2         | 2         | 2                               |
| 6        | Karnataka         | 3         | NR        | NR                              |
| 7        | Kerala            | NR        | 2         | NR                              |
| 8        | Maharashtra       | 0         | 0         | NR                              |
| 9        | Meghalaya         | 1         | NR        | NR                              |
| 10       | Nagaland          | 4         | 2         | NR                              |
| 11       | Odisha            | 17        | 8         | 9                               |
| 12       | Tamil Nadu        | 7         | 9         | 3                               |
| 13       | Tripura           | 0         | 0         | NR                              |
| 14       | Uttar Pradesh     | 0         | 3         | 0                               |
| 15       | Uttarakhand       | 1         | 6         | 2                               |
| 16       | West Bengal       | 21        | 13        | 3                               |
|          | Total             | 70        | 70        | 36                              |

NR-Not Received

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