Elephant locations in Nepal

The Rana rulers established Hattisars (government stables) as part of their big game hunting exploits. Between 1898 and 1970 there were 31 such stables for captive elephants, stretching from Jhapa in east Nepal to Kanchanpur in far west Nepal. The last wild elephant was captured near Parsa in 1969

Other sources state: There are around 200 captive elephants in Nepal. Around 100 of them are owned by the Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation and 100 by private institutionsJeewan Thapa

1996: population was estimated to 50-60 (Santiapillai, IUCN 1996).

2008: 100-170 (Sukumar 2008)

Many roam between India and Nepal, where rapidly rising human populations devastated lowland forest herds. Small herds have stabilised in protected reserves.

Gaja or Prasad denotes a male and Kali denotes a female.

Reference list

Sources, among others

• Current status of elephants in Nepal, by Pradhan et al. (2011), http://www.asesg.org/gajah35.htm">Gajah nr 35, 2012. (Journal of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group)
  
• Jeewan Thapa, Nepal, http://www.asesg.org/gajah.htm
  
• https://animalnepal.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/report-an-elephant-is-not-a-machine.pdf
  
• https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/elephant-mahout-killed-in-tiger-attack-in-chitwan-national-park/
  
• http://news.coinupdate.com/nepal-newly-issued-1000-rupee-banknotes-include-depiction-of-twin-asian-elephants/
  
• http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2016-12-30/wild-elephants-cause-menace-in-bardiya.html
  
• http://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/chitwan-elephant-festival-held-sauraha-december-26/
  
• http://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/property-worth-rs-1-lakh-destroyed-morang-elephant-attack/
  
• http://www.myrepublica.com/news/11116
  
• http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=69146
  
• http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=190306
  
• http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=46852
  
• http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Elephant+attack+claims+one+more+&NewsID=314611

Internal relevant links

• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• News about elephants in Nepal