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Human activities and changes in the land-use covers, forage and water availability have resulted in the “habitat and biodiversity” and have directly affected the Asiatic elephant movement in the fragmented forest in the Southern India.The Forest regions outside the protected areas are usually neglected . The large density of Asiatic elephants resides in Southern India and often face the issues along with the villagers and farmers when any conflict occurs. (“G. Harihar et al., 2019”).
The Human elephant conflict has increased compared to previous years. The conflict affect both the parties. According to the Environment Ministry report 2019, approximately 100-300 people and 40-50 elephants die in India itself every year as a result of this conflict. Elephants killed over 2,300 people 2014-2019, as per the data, the number of human deaths by elephants came to 494 in 2018-2019 .
Study was conducted between two time periods i.e., Period 1 and period 2. and the changes was analyzed using various tests described in the further chapter.
There is a shit in the movement of the Asian elephant in the fragmented forests. The change in the rainfall pattern has shifted the seasons. Climate change has started showing its affected and the pattern of occurrence of Asian elephants have changed drastically over time. The social group type occurring over the various landcovers has also changed. Elephant started following new paths for their movements.
The two seasons has changed and there is no similarity between them. Acc to the graphical representations the occurrence has completely inverted between the two periods. The overall distribution was not normal. Although there was an interesting observation between the group sizes and seasons between the location wise analysis. The protected areas has seen no changes between the two periods.
Keywords: ”Seasonality , Social group types , Movement , Occurrence , Land-use covers”.
