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title: "Project Elephant: India's Conservation Scheme"
description: "Project Elephant is India's 1992 scheme protecting wild elephants, corridors, and curbing human-elephant conflict. Key UPSC GS3 facts on reserves and MIKE."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- Project Elephant is a centrally sponsored Government of India scheme launched in 1992 to protect wild elephants, their habitats, and migration corridors.
- When was Project Elephant launched and under what legal basis?
- How does an Elephant Reserve differ from a National Park or Wildlife Sanctuary?
- What is the MIKE programme under Project Elephant?
- Why is Project Elephant criticised compared with Project Tiger?

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