APPENDIX I OF UN CONVENTION ON MIGRATORY SPECIES

Asian Elephant:

• The Government of India has declared Asian elephant/Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) as National Heritage Animal.
  
  
• Indian elephant is also provided highest degree of legal protection by listing it in Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
  
  
• The challenges confronting Asian elephant conservation in most elephant Range States are habitat loss and fragmentation, human elephant conflict, and poaching and illegal trade of elephants.
  
  

Great Indian Bustard:

• The Great Indian Bustard is a Critically Endangered species with a small population of about 100–150 individuals that is largely restricted to Thar desert in Rajasthan, India.
  
  
• The species has disappeared from 90% of this range; their population has reduced by 90% within 50 years (six generations); and their threats are expected to increase in future.
  
  

Bengal Florican:

• The Bengal Florican, a critically endangered species, exhibits transboundary movements. Its migration exposes it to threats such as land use changes and collision with power transmission line at boundary area of India-Nepal.
  
  
• As a result, populations have declined and the species no longer breeds outside Protected Areas in the Indian subcontinent, except in a few areas of Assam.