With reference to Project Elephant consider the following statements It is a Centrally Sponsored Sch...........

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With reference to Project Elephant, consider the following statements

It is a Centrally-Sponsored Scheme to protect elephants and improve their habitat.
Asian elephants are designated as vulnerable species under the IUCN Red List.

Select the correct statement.

1 only

2 only

Both

None

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Explanation:

Announcing the 30-year celebration of ‘Project Elephant’ recently officials from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change said that the DNA profiling of 270 of the 2,675 captive elephants in the country has been completed.

Project Elephant’ was launched in 1992 as a Centrally-Sponsored Scheme to protect elephants and improve their habitat and corridors, reduce Human-elephant conflict and ensure their welfare.
Under this project, financial and technical support is given to wildlife management efforts by states for their free-ranging populations of wild Asian Elephants.
Project elephant is mainly implemented in 16 States.

Conservation status of Asian Elephant