ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Critical Elephant Corridor in India to be Severed
By Ecological Internet's Forests.org project http://forests.org/ March 3, 2009 TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=india_elephants Help avert a serious threat to the largest surviving Elephant Population in India the imminent severance of the Muthanga Elephant Corridor in Kerala BRIEF BACKGROUND: The largest and potentially most viable population of Asian elephants is found in the mountains of the Western Ghats where the three Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka meet. Of a total population of about 2000 elephants surviving in Peninsular India in various fragmented habitat islands, the largest single population which may number over 1000 individuals is found in a near contiguous habitat extending over this 4500sq km tract. A major inter-state highway linking Bangalore with Calicut is planned which will further fragment the elephant's seasonal migration corridor. The Wayanad Nature Protection Group (Wayanad Prakruthi Samrakshana Samati) and Rainforest Information Centre have appealed to the world community to help prevent the severance of this critical corridor. TAKE ACTION NOW: http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=india_elephants DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://forests.org/blog/2009/03/alert-critical-elephant-corrid.asp --- You are subscribed to ecological_internet as [email protected]. Before unsubscribing, please consider modifying your list profile at: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/[email protected] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] Or click here: http://email.ecoearth.info:81/u?id=84041H&n=T&c=F&l=ecological_internet To subscribe visit: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
