India, Dec. 2 -- The main focus of the NEAP will be to mitigate human-elephant conflict, along with improvement of habitat

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has created a technical committee to come up with a National Elephant Action Plan (NEAP).

The committee was created on October 22, 2019, and includes thirteen members, with Inspector General of Forest (Project Elephant) Noyal Thomas as the chairman.

The committee includes KM Selvan (MoEF&CC), Ajay Desai (World Wide Fund for Nature), R Sukumar (Indian Institute of Science), Bivash Pandav (Wildlife Institute of India), Sandeep Kumar Tiwari (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Prajna Paramita Panda (Wildlife Trust of India) along with ...