6 years on, elephant numbers shrink in Bengaluru’s backyard
The city, which earned its stripes with the presence of two tigers as per the Tiger Estimation exercise of 2022, scored low on jumbo count released on Wednesday. While the forested areas of Bengaluru around Bannerghatta along the southern boundary had a density of 0.6 tuskers per sqkm in 2017, the same landscape reported a density of near ly 0.5 jumbos per sqkm in 2023