WILD ELEPHANT CENSUS ( DNA BASED) IN 2025

 * 22,446 Wild Elephant Counted in India in 2025 ( KARNATAKA, ASSAM, KERALA) 

- Declined By 18% 

- 27312 In 2017 

- CENSUS By The All India Synchronous Elephant Estimation (SAIEE) 

* THIS WAS THE FIRST DNA Based Census 

( DNA BASED - This Is The Technique Involved Collecting Elephant Dung along Systematically Laid Trails, Genotyping Samples At 11 Microsatellite loci, And Mapping Each Sample To Unique Genetic Identity )