Madhya Pradesh Gains Resident Wild Elephants After Century

After more than 100 years, Madhya Pradesh now has wild elephants living there permanently.

Two groups of elephants came from Chhattisgarh about seven years ago.

One group of seven elephants settled in Sanjay Dubri Tiger Reserve in 2017, and another group of about 40 elephants settled in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in 2018.

These elephants found the forests in these reserves to be good places to live.

Before this, the last time elephants lived in Madhya Pradesh was in 1905.

The elephants had disappeared because of poaching and deforestation.

Now, Madhya Pradesh has about 97 wild elephants, and India has about 22,446 wild elephants.