Road for Elephants: Elephant Use of the Karadikkal-Madeshwara Corridor, Southern India.

Wildlife corridors play an important role in connecting elephant habitats across India. Monitoring them is essential to assess their usage by elephants and to identify the anthropological risks to their persistence. We present the results of a gridbased survey of elephants for the Kardikkal-Madeshwara corridor in Bannerghatta National Park. Our findings indicated high use by elephants, with more observations recorded within grids which overlay natural habitats of the park than those that overlay human dominated land. The corridor remains under high human pressure, indicating the need for continued attention to maintaining corridor function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]