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| Name of the Collection | Dhriti Kanta Lahiri Choudhury |
|---|---|
| Folder/Categories | I. Subject Files, 1881-2016 |
| Sub-folder/Sub-category | C. Elephant, 1977-2008/ (iii) Illegal Trade and Poaching, 1994-2006 |
| File No. /Acc. No. | 206 |
| Abstract | Correspondence between D.K. Lahiri Choudhury and R. Sukumar, Vivek Menon, S. Roy, S.S. Bist, Vinod Rishi, M.K. Nandi and others regarding poaching of elephants for ivory trade in Asia and Africa, impact of ban of African ivory on Asian Elephant, resuming sale of ivory in Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe, ivory outlets in Asian countries, study of ivory trade in India, and ivory seizure in Kenya. The file includes reports titled, Analysis of the Amended Management System of Domestic Ivory Trade in Japan by Masayuki Sakamoto, and Signed and Sealed: The Fate of Asian Elephant by Vivek Menon and Ashok Kumar. There are newspaper clippings on human-elephant conflict, ivory trade, elephant conservation, Project Elephant etc. and a bulletin article entitled �Elephant Ivory Trade: A Case Study of the African Elephant� |
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| Recipient | |
| Keywords | Poaching; Elephants; Asia; Africa; Botswana; Namibia; Zimbabwe; Kenya; Japan; Project Elephant |
| Start Date “Period From” | 1995 |
| End Date “Period To” | 2006 |
| Extent | 435 pp. |
| Item type/Format | Printed, Typed & Photocopy |
| Language | English & Bengali |
| Remarks | Publishers: Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre; CITES/Brittle |
| Source/Link | CBI Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 2, 2 Feb. 1996) etc. |
| Donor | Sheila Lahiri Choudhury, Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury, Debjani Das |
| Donation Date | 2021 |
| Custodian | Archives of Contemporary India, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana |
| Right/Copyright | Donor |
