Wildlife Protection Act, 1972

Unlike tiger reserves that are notified under Wildlife Protection Act 1972, elephant reserves are notified under an executive order of the government and therefore lack legal status and the safeguards that go with it.

M D Madhusudan of Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore observes, " This is a peculiar situation. The elephant, as a species, receives the highest protection our laws can offer, but the land over which it ranges, does not have a similar level of protection."

Jumbo Conflict,  D T E, February 2014.