Wild elephants kill 1,700 Indians in four years

New Delhi: Encounters with wild elephants have been responsible for more than 1,700 deaths in India over the last four years, prompting the government to step up measures to minimise potential clashes with humans.

Between 2015 and 2018, the government paid out about Rs2.26 billion (Dh117 million or $32 million) in compensation for loss of life and damage to crops and property as a result of such encounters, according to statistics released on Friday by the environment ministry. It was responding to a lawmaker’s question in parliament.

The environment ministry figures also showed 373 elephants have been killed since 2015 as a result of electrocution, poaching, poisoning and being hit by trains as they wander from their natural habitat into areas inhabited by humans.

The government is using technologies ranging from tagging the animals with radio collars to alerting local residents via text messages and the WhatsApp messaging service to limit potential elephant encounters and damage caused by them.

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Human-Elephant Conflict Escalates to a New High in Odisha as Fodder Shortage Drives Herds Into Villages

The human-elephant conflict in Odisha and particularly in Dhenkanal has increased to an alarming level, claiming lives of 595 humans and 598 elephants since April 2010.

Dhenkanal forest (Odisha): The human-elephant conflict in Odisha and particularly in Dhenkanal has increased to an alarming level, claiming lives of 595 humans and 598 elephants since April 2010, thanks to the rapid dwindling of fodder and drying up of water bodies in the core areas of the state.

Largescale tree felling and the unplanned industrial activities in the forest vicinity have also pushed the elephants to nearby villages in search of food and water causing serious problems for both humans and elephants.

The conflict has become more acute in the recent past since fourteen elephants were killed for various reasons including diseases and train mishaps since April of the current financial year; while 35 human-elephant encounters took place resulting in a loss of the lives of 26 villagers, an all-time high casualty in the state.

This alarming rise in the deaths of both elephants and villagers, as a result of the human-animal conflict in Odisha, has raised a serious concern among environmentalists and wildlife enthusiasts who blame the state Forest Department's ‘non-serious and callous approach’ for the grave problem that villagers in the nearby forests are facing and have sought an immediate action plan to prevent further loss of precious lives.

Dhenkanal, with its significant forest cover, has witnessed twelve elephant-human encounters since April in villages like Sogoro, Ichhabatipur, Rodho, Gailo, Pandua, Latadeipur, and Palas Sahi among others, injuring five people and claiming the lives of ten villagers and an elephant.

Since 2014, a total of fifty-five elephants and seventy-one villagers have died, and an equal number of people injured in the one hundred and twenty-nine human-elephant encounters that took place till 3rd June in Dhenkanal itself.

However, not only in Dhenkanal, this human-elephant conflict is witnessed in other districts of the state as well, including Sundergarh, Balasore, Deoghar, Angul, Mayurbhanj, Sambalpur, Ganjam and Cuttack.


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Human-Elephant Conflict Escalates to a New High in Odisha as Fodder Shortage Drives Herds Into Villages

Dhenkanal forest (Odisha): The human-elephant conflict in Odisha and particularly in Dhenkanal has increased to an alarming level, claiming lives of 595 humans and 598 elephants since April 2010, thanks to the rapid dwindling of fodder and drying up of water bodies in the core areas of the state.

Largescale tree felling and the unplanned industrial activities in the forest vicinity have also pushed the elephants to nearby villages in search of food and water causing serious problems for both humans and elephants.

The conflict has become more acute in the recent past since fourteen elephants were killed for various reasons including diseases and train mishaps since April of the current financial year; while 35 human-elephant encounters took place resulting in a loss of the lives of 26 villagers, an all-time high casualty in the state.

This alarming rise in the deaths of both elephants and villagers, as a result of the human-animal conflict in Odisha, has raised a serious concern among environmentalists and wildlife enthusiasts who blame the state Forest Department's ‘non-serious and callous approach’ for the grave problem that villagers in the nearby forests are facing and have sought an immediate action plan to prevent further loss of precious lives.

Dhenkanal, with its significant forest cover, has witnessed twelve elephant-human encounters since April in villages like Sogoro, Ichhabatipur, Rodho, Gailo, Pandua, Latadeipur, and Palas Sahi among others, injuring five people and claiming the lives of ten villagers and an elephant.


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Wild elephants destroy crops in Kuppam segment

Tirupati: A herd of six wild elephants have destroyed the standing crops in several villages of Kuppam Assembly constituency, represented by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. On Saturday night (November 26) and Sunday morning (November 27), wild elephants have damaged paddy, banana, tomato and other crops in the villages of Attinattam and Gudivanka of Gudupalle mandal.

Even, the tuskers did not spare electric motors also. The last time the elephants were spotted at Santhipuram mandal on July 15. This time, they strayed into human habitations from Karnataka and damaged the crops in between Kuppam and KGF district, the AP-Karnataka borders. On receiving information, the officials of the Forest department have deployed 10 elephant trackers to divert the attention of wild jumbos destroying crops.

According to sources in the Forest department, herd of elephants strayed into human habitations of Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu from Maharakadai Reserve Forest to eat tamarind crop every year during the months of November, December and January. Some tuskers instead of entering into Krishnagiri district are straying into Bhiyamkonda hillock areas of Kuppam Assembly constituency.

Speaking to The Hans India, Kuppam Forest Range Officer Kallappa Naidu said elephants were found 3 km from Attinattam village in Gudupalle mandal. “Our trackers are striving hard to divert the attention of elephants from AP villages by beating drums and bursting the crackers,” he added.

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Elephant calf enter Coimbatore home. No Meals, they depart

An elephant and a younger calf entered a home in Coimbatore’s Periyanaickenpalayam on Thursday night time

An elephant and a younger calf entered a home in Coimbatore’s Periyanaickenpalayam neighbourhood on Thursday night time in the hunt for meals. Their hunt for meals was caught on a CCTV digicam which reveals the 2 animals loitering round what seems to be the courtyard of the home. Within the video, the grownup elephant enters the yard with the younger one shut behind. The 2 head in direction of a shed searching for meals. With no meals, the elephants go away the home roughly a minute later after inspecting the environment. There have been no studies of any harm, information company ANI stated.

Nevertheless, not all human-elephant encounters have been with out violence as this one. India is house to the most important inhabitants of Asian elephants on the earth. Sadly, a minimum of 70% of these haven’t got a viable habitat. Consequently, they usually come face-to-face with people in states like Assam, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Karnataka. On common, 100 people are killed yearly in India. Elephants too have been killed, typically brutally, within the battle. In a photograph that went viral, a mom and child elephant have been set on fireplace and attacked by an offended mob in Bankura district of West Bengal. The photograph titled “hell is right here” by Biplab Hazra received him the wildlife photographer of the 12 months award.

In one other instance, a Kerala man’s movie-like stunt, for Fb views, to climb an elephant’s trunk landed him within the hospital.

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