The Telegraph
June 5, 2008
Bhubaneswar, June 4: On the eve of World Environment Day, senior wildlife officials from Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and Bengal today came together to work out an inter-state co-ordination strategy and to resolve the long standing issue of man-elephant conflict.
Organised by the wildlife wing of the forest department, the workshop titled “Man-Elephant interface for the eastern regional states of India” aimed to focus on conflicts arising due to spatial and food-related problems.
It is common knowledge that elephants are migratory creatures in nature and do not confine within a particular forest. They keep migrating from one district to another within a state or from one state to another state following certain “corridors”. Thus, experts believe that it is not just a particular pachyderm habitat that needs to be managed, but corridors connecting habitats including the ones extending over the neighbouring states, need to be taken care of.
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