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Common survey to count elephants and tigers
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- India is planning to adopt the new population estimation protocol in the all-India elephant and tiger population survey in 2022.
- As per the new protocol, India will move to a system that will count tigers and elephants as part of a common survey.
- Currently, the tiger survey is usually held once in four years and elephants are counted once in five years.
- According to the most recent 2018-19 survey, there were 2,997 tigers in India.
- According to the last count in 2017, there were 29,964 elephants in India.
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