A herd of 100 wild elephants create havoc in Assam’s Kaliabor

Guwahati, Dec 30 (IBNS): The wild elephant menace continues in Assam as a herd of over 100 wild elephants created havoc at Kaliabor area in central Assam’s Nagaon district recently.

The elephants came from nearby forest area in Karbi Anglong district for searching foods and destroyed several bighas of crop land at the area.

Locals said that, over 100 wild elephants went on a rampage at Salna, Dijuvalley and nearby villages and destroyed crop areas, houses.

The wild elephants continuously terrorized at the area in past a week.

“A herd of 100 wild elephants came from Karbi hills area has been strayed at the area under Salna forest range in past a week. The herd creating havoc from Rowmari Dalani to Dalgaon area and we are trying to run away the herd to Kaziranga National Park,” a forest officer said.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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Assam: Wild elephants go on rampage in Baksa villages

A herd of wild elephants went on a rampage and left behind a trail of destruction at Nagrijuli area in Baksa district of Assam on Wednesday night. The wild tuskers created terror at several villages falling under the Nagrijuli Development Block in the said district.

It is reported that elephant habitats are shrinking along the Indo-Bhutan border due to continuous human encroachment thus forcing them to come out of their natural habitats in search of food and, in the process, triggering conflict with the locals.

The said group of wild elephants entered Nagrijuli Tea Estate on Wednesday night and sat along the bank of Bornadi River. In search of food, the marauding tuskers entered Line No 6 and 8 of Nagrijuli Tea Estate and crushed the houses of Birshi Munda, Apurba Dundi, Amrit Bagh, Albish and Dilkumar. Another herd of wild pachyderms entered the nearby Dongargao village and smashed the houses of Uttam Biswas and Gudum Munda and broke the shops of Santosh Rai and Boistav Rai.

The marauding tuskers ate whatever food was left inside the houses and the shops and caused huge loss of property. The helpless villagers tried their best to chase away the wild elephants, but in vain. The villagers as well as the labourers of Nagrijuli Tea Estate stayed awake the whole night till the group of wild elephants left for the jungles at dawn.

The villagers have demanded that the State Government and the concerned authorities should take necessary steps to stop human-elephant conflict but, wildlife activists say that human encroachment in the forests of Northeast India have forced elephants out of their habitats thus triggering the said situation. Elephants rampage through villages in search of food as their habitats are being overtaken by people, say conservationists.


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Assam: Wild elephants go on rampage in Baksa villages

A herd of wild elephants went on a rampage and left behind a trail of destruction at Nagrijuli area in Baksa district of Assam on Wednesday night. The wild tuskers created terror at several villages falling under the Nagrijuli Development Block in the said district.

It is reported that elephant habitats are shrinking along the Indo-Bhutan border due to continuous human encroachment thus forcing them to come out of their natural habitats in search of food and, in the process, triggering conflict with the locals.

The said group of wild elephants entered Nagrijuli Tea Estate on Wednesday night and sat along the bank of Bornadi River. In search of food, the marauding tuskers entered Line No 6 and 8 of Nagrijuli Tea Estate and crushed the houses of Birshi Munda, Apurba Dundi, Amrit Bagh, Albish and Dilkumar. Another herd of wild pachyderms entered the nearby Dongargao village and smashed the houses of Uttam Biswas and Gudum Munda and broke the shops of Santosh Rai and Boistav Rai.

The marauding tuskers ate whatever food was left inside the houses and the shops and caused huge loss of property. The helpless villagers tried their best to chase away the wild elephants, but in vain. The villagers as well as the labourers of Nagrijuli Tea Estate stayed awake the whole night till the group of wild elephants left for the jungles at dawn.

The villagers have demanded that the State Government and the concerned authorities should take necessary steps to stop human-elephant conflict but, wildlife activists say that human encroachment in the forests of Northeast India have forced elephants out of their habitats thus triggering the said situation. Elephants rampage through villages in search of food as their habitats are being overtaken by people, say conservationists.


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Jumbo herd kills one on Dalma fringes

Jamshedpur: A 45-year-old man was killed by elephants at Oppo village in Patamda, on the fringes of Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, in the small hours of Friday.

Buddheshwar Singh, a resident of Jarka Tola in Oppo village, around 35km from here in East Singhbhum district, was trampled to death by a herd of elephants while he was guarding his farm around 4am.

Dalma range officer R.P. Singh, Kanderbera forester Prakash Chandra and his Bhadodih counterpart Tapan Kumar Mahto reached the spot after villagers informed them about the incident. "The incident took place around 4am. Singh was alone when the elephants attacked and killed him. Police have sent the body to MGM Medical College and Hospital for autopsy," he said.

The forest department has paid Rs 25,000 to the victim's wife, Shanthi Bala, for funeral expenses. "Another Rs 3.75 lakh will be paid after paperwork is completed. Elephant attack victims are given a compensation of Rs 4 lakh," the range officer said.

On Sunday last, forest authorities had alerted villagers that three separate herds having around 40 elephants were anchored in Patamda. The Dalma range office in Mango had also distributed crackers and torches among them.

The herds had left Dalma last month for their annual sojourn to the jungles of West Midnapore and Bankura in neighbouring Bengal. However, after reaching Dalbhumgarh and Ghatshila, they turned back and started heading towards Dalma via Patamda.

Normally, the elephants migrate to the neighbouring state in August-September and return in January-February. But, the noise of a gun battle between Maoists and paramilitary forces inside the forest forced an early migration.

Elephants had destroyed houses and standing crops in Patamda and also injured an elderly earlier this year. Herds go on the rampage in search of food and damage houses in the process.


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Elephant Kills Man and Mops Floor with Him

Somewhere in India, an elephant went on a rampage and killed the mahout(A mahout is an elephant rider, trainer, or keeper). The video shows the elephant stomping the mahout, crushing him to death, and quite literally moping the floor with his lifeless body.

Somebody wearing a skirt made a few attempts to rescue the man from the deadly closeness to the enraged elephant, but dared not stand up to the beast. After a while he seemingly gave up, but returned and tried to distract the animal by throwing a stick at it. He was the only one of the lot who kept trying to do something, even after it was clear that the animal’s ragdoll for the day was dead.


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Man trampled to death by rampaging elephant while terrified onlookers run for their lives

A man has been killed after a elephant went on a rampage at a temple in India as shocked onlookers could only watch.

A crowd tried to surround the large animal as it started to lose control in the town of Kerala.

Suddenly the elephant broke away and crushed a man underfoot who was unable to move quickly enough.

He is caught by the creature's huge ivory tusk, before being stamped on with its large foot.

People can be seen in the footage fleeing for their lives, while others can be heard screaming at the animal as the man is tossed about on the floor.

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Jumbo task in tiger hunt

A herd of more than 20 elephants went on the rampage in the forests near Lalgarh, destroying two of the hidden cameras that had photographed a tiger in the area on Friday.

Six cameras remain but none is safe with the elephants around. The elephants that entered Jhargram around 48 hours ago could scare the tiger and drive it away to another forest, wildlife officials said.

The forest department laid two traps with live bait for the tiger on Sunday but now capturing the animal seems a daunting task.

"Capturing a tiger is in itself a tough job. But we had zeroed in on a broad location. The elephants have made things even more challenging. We might have to expand the area of operation," said Ravikant Sinha, the chief wildlife warden of Bengal.

Two of the elephants, one of them a tusker, were separated from the herd and ran amok in nearby villages and Lalgarh town.

"The elephants uprooted several trees and trampled over small bushes and twigs. The cameras were placed inside tree trunks and other hidden spots," said Rabindranath Saha, the divisional forest officer of Midnapore. "They destroyed potato farms and crushed two-wheelers. The walls of a few buildings were also damaged."

Forest officials and villagers managed to drive the elephants back into the forest by evening.

Elephants from Jharkhand's Dalma region often enter Jhargram but the presence of the tiger in the jungle has complicated things this time.

No fresh pug marks were spotted in Melkhedia jungle on Sunday, prompting some officials to suspect that the predator may have moved to Kamrangi forest, less than 5km from Lalgarh. "Kamrangi forest is covered with layers of dried sal leaves. It will be difficult to trace pug marks there," said Saha.

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Elephant rampages through east Indian town

A wild elephant rampaged through an east Indian town on Wednesday, smashing cars and homes and sending panicked people running before the animal was tranquilized to be returned to the forest.

“The elephant was scared and was trying to go back to the jungle,” said Papaiya Sarkar, a 40-year-old homemaker who watched the elephant amble down a street near her home.

The elephant had wandered from the Baikunthapur forest, crossing roads and a small river before entering the town of Siliguri in West Bengal state.

Divisional Forest Officer Basab Rai said the female elephant appeared to be a loner without a herd, and was likely searching for food when it strayed into the town.

He said it did not attack any people, and appeared to be afraid of them. After several hours, it became clear the elephant was unable to find its way back to the forest.

As the frightened elephant ran amok, trampling parked cars and motorbikes, crowds of people gathered to watch from balconies and rooftops. Some followed from a distance as the elephant moved through the streets.

Elephants are increasingly coming into contact with people in India, as the human population of 1.25 billion soars and cities and towns grow at the expense of jungles and other elephant habitats.

In India and Sri Lanka, elephant vs. people encounters result in more than 400 elephants and 250 humans killed each year.

Authorities eventually shot the elephant three times with a tranquilizer gun and used a crane to lift it into a truck once it had calmed down. It was then taken to a park for domesticated pachyderms that is maintained by the forest department. Once the effect of the tranquilizer wore off, authorities planned to return the elephant to the forest, Rai said.

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Trenches threaten Wayanad ecosystem

KOZHIKODE: Indiscriminate digging of trenches in Wayanad, meant to keep rampaging elephants from damaging cultivation, has led to depletion of critical water resources in the forested hill district, which is already witnessing decreased rainfall.

A six-month long study conducted by the state department of Soil Survey and Soil Conservation has found that 70% of the springs at the source points of Kabini river and one third of its contributing streams have dried up, with elephant proof trenches (EPTs) being one of the main reasons.

The district soil conservation officer said this has affected the lateral movement of water vital for the longevity of springs and water flow in the contributing streams of the basin.
Elephant trenches drain rivulets, choke rivers

In an unintended fallout, the nearly 400km long elephant proof trenches (EPTs) dug up around the Wayanad forests to keep marauding jumbos at bay are turning 'river killers' and affecting the water security of the hill district.

The role of EPTs in the depletion of streams and springs has emerged in the six-month-long study conducted by the state department of soil survey and soil conservation. The study had found that 70% of the springs in the source points of the Kabani river and one third of its contributing streams have dried up and the EPT's had a role in that, apart from other environmental factors. "The elaborate network of EPTs has disrupted the natural water flow in the drainage basins.

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Jumbo rampage in Digboi village

A herd of 30 wild elephants, that came out from Upper Dehing reserve forest and entered Balijan and Borjan village, has created panic for the past month, destroying crops.

The village falls under Digboi forest division in Tinsukia district.

"I have lost 300 bighas of crops to rampaging elephants. Every year, the elephants come from the reserve forest and spark terror in our village. We have been spending sleepless nights for several days now," said Arun Das, a resident of Borjan village.

He said they had informed the forest department about the elephant depredation.

The elephant herds are spotted in the area every day.

Harinaryan Changing, a farmer of Balijan village in Tinsukia district, said, "Every night the herd comes out from Upper Dehing reserve forest and destroys our paddy fields. We cultivate rice once a year and the harvest is our only sustenance but it seems that this year we cannot save our paddy fields."

Though man-elephant conflict in these areas is nothing new, the frequency of incidents has increased manifold in recent years, mainly because of the loss of elephant habitat because of clearing of forests.

Digboi forest ranger Parineeta Singh told The Telegraph on Sunday, "We have less manpower but are still doing our best to save wildlife. We have provided kerosene, crackers and torches to the villagers to drive the elephants away. This year there is a big herd comprising 70 to 80 elephants and we are having a tough time driving them away. We are keeping a watch on the Bogipani and Golai elephant corridors," Singh added.

She added that this year the elephants had destroyed many paddy fields in Digboi.

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Woman, her minor son killed in elephant attack

A 35-year-old woman and her minor son were killed and houses were damaged by a herd of wild elephants in a village of Chhattisgarh?s Surguja district, police said today.

The incident took place last night in Pidiya village under Sitapur police station area, Station House Officer (SHO) Sitapur Dinesh Singh Baghel said.

A herd of wild elephants entered the village, which lies in the Mainpat forest range. A woman, Ratni Bai, and her son Sukhsai (5) were trampled to death by the elephants after they came in front of the herd, he said.

The pachyderms also damaged at least 20 houses in the village and killed a livestock before going back inside the forest, the SHO added.

The kin of the deceased have been given an instant relief amount of Rs 50,000, a local forest official said.

The thick forested northern Chhattisgarh, comprising Surguja, Korba, Raigarh, Jashpur and Korea districts, are known for human-elephant conflict.

The region has witnessed several killings of tribals and widespread damages to houses and crops by rogue elephant in the past

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Elephant Herd Kills 2 Women In Tikrikilla

Two women, Pongsai Rabha (65) and Hobisori Rabha (30), were trampled to death in Tikrikilla region of West Garo Hills when a herd of wild elephants rampaged through their home on Monday night, while a child sustained serious injuries and was rushed to the hospital for medical treatment.

The family was asleep in their home in Nayapara village of Pedaldoba when the wild herd entered the village in search of food and started destroying bamboo dwelling homes.

Elephants from neighbouring Assam and even Bangladesh annually cross over in search of food particularly during the harvest season, in the process destroying standing crops.

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Elephant tramples 65-year-old man to death

A 65-year-old brick kiln worker was trampled to death by a wild elephant near Kanuvai on the city outskirts in the early hours of today, police said.

The worker was on his way to the kiln in Kanuvai when the elephant appeared suddenly from behind the bushes and trampled him to death, they added.

Public and kiln workers informed police and forest department officials, who rushed to the place, recovered the body and sent it for post-mortem.

Villagers told the officials that the elephant had been moving around in the area for the last six months and had reportedly killed three persons during the period and sought steps to prevent it from entering human habitats.

Meanwhile, a 75-year-old man was attacked by an elephant at Samayapuram near Mettupalayam, about 45 km from here.

The man was crossing the road at around 6.30 AM, when the elephant attacked him, creating panic among the residents, police said.

After being provided first aid at Mettupalayam government hospital, he was admitted to the government hospital here.

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Wild elephant tramples man to death

Coimbatore: A 61-year-old man from Thadagam is suspected to have been killed by a wild elephant on Friday morning.

Local residents had found the body of K Radhakrishnan, an employee of a brickkiln, outside the forest limits just off Anaikatti Road in Chinna Thadagam. "Looks like he was attacked by an elephant when he was on the way to attend nature's calls. He had suffered head injuries. Footprints of an elephant were seen in the area. But, we are still investigating," district forest officer Sathish said.

Forest department officials have been tracking an elephant in the area for the last few days.
People living in and around Thadagam and Mankarai said they had been complaining about elephant movement in the area for several months. An elephant had killed three people in the last six months, they said. The residents also sought permission to store more crackers to scare away elephants.

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Elephants force tribal woman to live atop banyan tree in Periyapatna !

Periyapatna: While governments run by various political parties boast about several schemes they have launched for the welfare of tribal population and members of backward communities, here is a classic example in Periyapatna where it shows that many government schemes have just remained on paper, without reaching the deserving population.

The story we are narrating here is that of a woman who is forced to live atop a banyan tree as her hut has been ravaged by wild elephants. She has been living like a tree animal since months and her case proves that governments may come and governments may go but nothing changes on ground despite tall claims by elected representatives.

The woman is Latha, wife of late Ganesh of Karadibokke Tribal Hamlet on the border of Doddaharave Reserve Forest in Periyapatna, the Assembly constituency represented by Congress MLA K. Venkatesh, who is the Chairman of Bengaluru Development Authority. And Periyapatna falls in Chief Minister Siddharamaiah’s home district of Mysuru.

Latha hails from Jenukuruba tribal community and there are over 22 Jenukuruba tribal families living at Karadibokke. The tribals are living there since the last 65 years and they depend on the meagre food facilities provided by the government. Most of the time, they depend on forest roots and edible forest produce for their living. Some of them visit other nearby villages in search of daily wage work.
Latha’s husband Ganesh died four years back owing to illness and she has two children Amulya and Vinu who are studying at the Abbalathi Tribal Ashrama School.

While Amulya is studying in fifth standard, Vinu is studying in the third standard.

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Woman trampled to death by elephant

A 50-year-old woman was trampled to death by an elephant at Alandurai on Tuesday morning. The woman, identified as T. Saradha of Pettavaithalai in Tiruchi, had migrated with her relatives to Coimbatore as daily wager. In the small hours of Tuesday, the woman had stepped out of her house to attend nature’s call when an elephant attacked her.

On information, the Forest Department staff rushed to the spot and chased away the elephant to the forest. The Alandurai Police have registered a case in this connection.

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Wild elephant tramples woman farmworker to death

Coimbatore: A 50-year-old woman farmworker was trampled to death by a wild elephant near Pattiyarkovilpathy village on Narasipuram-Isha Yoga Center Road on Tuesday.

The deceased was identified as Saradha, wife of Thavasi, a native of Pettavaithalai in Trichy, forest department officials said. "She had arrived in Pattiyarkovilpathy along with her family a week ago to harvest small onions from a field at Ponnusamy Gounder Thottam near Pattiyarkovilpathy. They were staying in a house inside the farmland. Saradha had gone to attend nature's call around 6.45am. Her daughter-in-law, who ventured out in search of Saradha after she heard an elephant trumpet, found her mangled body," an official said.

The daughter-in-law alerted the villagers, who rushed to the spot and informed forest department officials. The body was sent to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) for post-mortem and was later handed over to the family.

Forest department officials gave Rs 50,000 to the family as immediate relief. They will be given Rs 3.5 lakh soon as compensation, department officials said.

"We had warned the villagers not to venture into agriculture fields till 8am as there were a lot of elephants in the area," an official said.

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Nawab Shafat Ali Khan kills rogue elephant in Jharkhand

Renowned sharp shooter from Hyderabad, Nawab Shafat Ali Khan has shot down a rogue elephant on Friday which had killed 11 people in Sahebganj district of Jharkhand and four people in neighbouring Bihar apart from wrecking havoc in many villages by destroying homes and fields of tribals.

Khan said that he reached Jharkhand on August 9 on invitation from the state government to bring down the elephant after efforts by teams of forest department staff from Jharkhand and WB did not bear fruit.

Elephant is an endangered species protected under Schedule-I of the Wildlife Protection Act. However, Khan said that he tried his best to tranquilize the elephant before killing it. He said, “The forest was very thick and there were intermittent rains. The visibility was very restricted. It was proving very difficult to take aim. Moreover, tracking the elephant was also becoming tough. Overnight the elephant was travelling as far as 20 kilometers and was destroying homes of people and injuring them. So, the decision to shoot it had to be taken.”

Khan said that he had a brush with death before taking down the elephant with his .458 Winchester magnum rifle.

He said, “The elephant charged at me and was just ten meters away when I took my shot. It was a narrow escape for me.”

Khan, who is advisor to forest departments of five States, has killed seven such elephants till now and is called for his services across the country.

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Dudhwa tusker Mohan kills mahout

Shahjahanpur: In a tragic incident, an elephant trampled his mahout to death in Dudhwa National Park on Thursday night. This is the second person that the 35-year-old elephant, Mohan, has killed in five months. At the time of the incident, no other person was in the vicinity. The body was found on Friday morning. The elephant has now been kept under observation, and forest staff have been advised to keep away from the animal.

Piecing together the evidence, forest officials believe that the incident happened when mahout Ranjeet Kumar (37) went inside the enclosure to apply medicine on another elephant, Sundar, on Thursday night. For some reason, he must have approached Mohan, which was in another part of the enclosure. Another elephant, called Gajraj, was near Mohan. It was raining heavily and Mohan may have become nervous, possibly due to the thunder and lightning, and attacked the mahout.
Dudhwa’s field director Sunil Choudhary is investigating the latest incident and monitoring the elephants. Mohan is being kept under isolation.

In February, Mohan had killed a caretaker who used to feed it. Foresters are not ruling out the possibility of Gajraj attacking the mahout. This elephant is known to be difficult to handle. It was recently sent to Pilibhit for a tiger search operation but was sent back after it attacked an official.
Veterinarian Brijendra Yadav, who works in Lucknow zoo, told TOI, “The elephant may have been in a ‘musth’ state and this could be a reason that it became aggressive and attacked the mahout.” Male elephants turn ‘musth’ from time to time and become highly aggressive. Mostly domestic elephants are kept isolated when they are in a ‘musth’ state because they can attack their keeper at this time. Such a practice is also followed in zoos.”

Choudhary said, “Ranjeet was our best mahout.” He recalled an incident of 2010 in Meerut where an elephant, Shera, created a ruckus during the wedding of then BSP MP Kadir Rana’s son with party’s Rajya Sabha MP Munquad Ali's daughter. Ranjeet had controlled this rogue elephant then. “We have lost a valuable asset and all of us are very upset. We believe that Mohan killed Ranjeet, but there is a probability that Gajraj might have attacked him because both these elephants were in the open enclosure. I am investigating this incident myself.”

According to Dudhwa officials, Ranjeet was deeply attached to all the elephants. He had gone to apply medicine on Sundar and did not return after that. Other staff members went looking for him but returned due to heavy rain. They noticed that Mohan was in an aggressive mood. The search began on Friday morning and Ranjeet’s body was found near the spot where Mohan was.

Choudhary inspected the spot along with deputy director Mahaveer Kaujalgi and a WWF team.
Kaujalgi told TOI, "Ranjeet was taking care of Mohan for the past seven months but he was mainly responsible for Sundar because it was skilled and had a very good bonding with all other elephants.”
Ranjeet’s family was given a compensation of Rs 10,000 by the WWF team. The family has been assured of some compensation by the government as well.

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Man trampled to death by elephant in Chhattisgarh

Korba: A 40-year-old man was today trampled to death by an elephant in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district, a forest official said.

The victim, Ramcharan, came face-to-face with the tusker early this morning near his native Botli village when he had gone to pick mahua fruits in the Kartala forest range, he said. The man tried to escape from the spot but the pachyderm chased him and smashed him to the ground with its trunk before trampling him to death, the official said.

Upon getting information about the incident, the villagers rushed Ramcharan to Kartala community health centre where he succumbed during treatment, he said.

The kin of the deceased have been given an instant relief amount of Rs 25,000, the official said adding that the remaining compensation will be disbursed soon after completion of the necessary formalities. Several incidents of human-elephant conflict have been reported in the past from the thick forested northern Chhattisgarh, consisting of Surguja, Surajpur, Korba, Raigarh, Jashpur, Balrampur and Korea districts.

The region has witnessed several killings of tribals and widespread damage to houses and crops by rogue elephants.

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