Project to control wild tuskers chalked out

Newindpress.com
January 12 2007
BELGAUM: The Forest Department has floated a project -Habitat Improvement Programmee- to ‘control’ the movements of wild elephants which cross borders of forest and enter villages creating lot of havoc. The project will push the wild elephants back to the forest and save villagers and their crops.
The project costs Rs 1.40 crore. A proposal in this regard has been sent to the State Government. If the proposal comes in to reality, villagers who were victims of elephant havoc can have a sigh of relief.
The elephants started to cross the forest borders and entered the villages since 1997. Since 1997 till December 2006, they have killed 14 villagers including a forest range officer Rangegouda in 1999. As many as 5 villagers were injured in elephant attacks and crops -especially sugarcane worth lakhs of rupees- were damaged by elephants.

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