Tamil Nadu Notifies Three Elephant Corridors in Cauvery North Sanctuary

# Tamil Nadu Notifies Three Elephant Corridors in Cauvery North Sanctuary ### Why in News? Tamil Nadu notified three elephant corridors in the Cauvery North Wildlife Sanctuary to protect movement routes used by elephants between habitats in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. ### Why are elephant corridors important? - An elephant corridor is a narrow stretch of habitat that connects larger forest areas and allows animals to move between them. - Protecting such links helps maintain genetic exchange and reduces the risk of elephants being trapped in fragmented habitats, which can increase human-elephant conflict. - The notified corridors lie within reserved forests in the Hosur Forest Division and form part of the wider trans-Cauvery elephant landscape. ### Exam Connect - Elephant corridor → connects fragmented habitats - Asian elephant → National Heritage Animal of India - Cauvery North Wildlife Sanctuary → Tamil Nadu; linked to Karnataka elephant landscape