Dehradun, May 28 -- Elephants at Corbett.

Dehradun, 26 May: A special campaign to enumerate elephants was launched today in Rajaji Tiger Reserve and also in the world-famous Corbett Tiger Reserve. The census exercise at both the parks is expected to be completed by 30 May. Last known figures of elephants at Corbett Tiger Reserve are 1226 while at Rajaji, it is 311. More than 150 forest personnel and experts have been deployed for the task at Corbett. Corbett Tiger Reserve generally deploys a much larger workforce for elephant and tiger census operations because of its bigger staff strength, larger tourism infrastructure and denser wildlife monitoring network as well as in view of larger population of elephants as compared to Rajaji Park....