About DNA Profiling of Elephants:
- The DNA profiling was started in August 2022 for Gaj Soochna Mobile Application for forest officials.
- DNA profiling is the process where a specific DNA pattern, called a profile, is obtained from a sample of bodily tissue.
What is Project Elephant?
- It 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
- IUCN: Endangered
- Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972: Schedule I.
- CITES: Appendix I
