TWO TRAMPLED TO DEATH BY ELEPHANTS IN ODISHA

86 persons were killed in 2018-19, toll likely to go up

Three persons, including a child, were killed since Friday when elephants strayed into human habitation in different districts of Odisha. The three deaths took the human death toll in man-elephant conflict in the State to 86 in 2018-19 — the highest in a year.

Dayanidhi Sahu, 65, on his way to the village pond, was trampled to death on Saturday. Kedar Nath Prasad, an octogenarian, was attacked by a wild elephant wandering since February 28 in the Deulabeda area of Angul district. A seven-year-old boy died when a wall knocked by an elephant collapsed in the Baraghat village in Sundargarh district on Friday night.

Rising encounters

“In 2017-18, 84 persons died in encounters with elephants. This year, 86 deaths have already taken place. The toll is likely to go up with another month’s time left to complete the estimation,” said Ranjit Patnaik, campaigner with the Wildlife Society of Odisha (WSO), an NGO.

“This year, man-elephant encounters shot up to 159 against 120 last year. As many as 101 persons escaped with critical injuries after being chased by wild elephants,” said Mr. Patnaik.

Dhenkanal remains one of the most affected districts. “Of the 159 encounters, Dhenkanal accounts for 50. Twenty-one persons died and 38 were injured in the attacks,” he said.

According to government records, 680 people lost their lives in attacks by wild animals between 2011-12 and 2018-19. Of the 680 deaths, 535 human deaths were caused by elephant attacks.

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Jumbos trample man to death in Gomia

BOKARO: A man was trampled to death by a herd of elephants at
Koyotaad under Siyari Panchayat of Gomia block.

The herd of 12 elephants, including two calves, had entered the Koyotaad
village from Ramgarh a few days ago. It was only when villagers burst
crackers and raised an alarm, the herd ran away from the village.

R N Mishra, Bokaro divisional forest officer (DFO), said, “A quick response
team has been rushed to the spot and stationed there. We have provided
Rs 25,000 compensation to Shikha Devi, the deceased’s wife.” The
elephants entered the farm adjacent to Manjhi’s house at night.“In the
dark, he thought the calf was a buffalo and tried to chase it away. This
angered the elephants and they trampled Manjhi to death,” Mishra said. “It was after villagers reached the spot and raised an alarm that the elephants left the spot. Manjhi’s body was sent for post mortem. A forest team is keeping vigil on movement of herd to avoid such incidents,” the DFO added.

A forest team has alerted the residents in the area to remain indoors at night, if elephants enter their villages, and inform the quick response team immediately.

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Elephant tramples man to death

Kochi, Feb 8 (UNI) A man was trampled to death and eight sustained minor injuries by an
elephant, which ran amok after hearing the sound of crackers from the nearby area, near
Guruvayur in Thrissur district on Friday.

The deceased was identified as Babu, a native of Kannur.

The injured were admitted at a private hospital at Kunnamkulam, police added.

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Assam government mulls GPS collars on elephants as early warning system

The government in Assam is considering a proposal to use GPS-tted collars on elephants to study the pattern of their movement, officials said, as the number of casualties in the human-tusker conflict has been rising in the state.

“GPS-tted collars would help map the migration route and locate herds. It will serve as an early warning system,” the state’s principal chief conservator of forests and head of forest force SK Srivastava said.

If all the approvals come through, the Assam forest department will start with a pilot project in Nagaon forest division.

“The idea is to t the collars on ve to six animals and then study the response,” said Suvasish Das, Nagaon’s district forest officer.

Srivastava pointed out that more than 70 humans and 55 elephants have lost their lives so far this year.

Last week, an elephant which had strayed from the herd killed four people including a child in Kheroni in West Karbi Anglong district. On the same day, another man was trampled to death in Udalguri part of the Bodo Territorial Administrative Districts.

Elephants, too, are bearing the brunt as they are often poisoned or die after coming in contact with the
electric fences which have been put by people who are now mostly living in spaces which were earlier elephant habitats or corridors for their movement.

“Electrocution, train hits and poisoning are big reasons,” said Srivastava, adding the number of elephant deaths included those who died of natural causes, too.

Officials of the state forest department said the project will be carried out in consultation with the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and Wildlife Institute of India.

Assam’s forest cover is under severe pressure from the rising population. A study by Indian Institute of Remote Sensing titled Forest Cover Monitoring and Prediction in a Lesser Himalayan Elephant Landscape, published in Current Science in August said 9,007.14 square kilometres of forest may face depletion by 2028 in parts of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

The study which monitored forest cover depletion in parts of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh over an area of 42,375 square kilometres of elephant landscape showed continuous high loss of forest cover.

“The total loss in forest cover was estimated to be about 7,590 sq km from 1924 to 2009,” the study said adding that an increasing human population and subsequent demand on the land for cultivation were the major reasons for forest cover depletion.

“It is such a scenario now that both the elephants and the humans are victims,” Assam’s principal chief conservator of forest (wildlife) DP Bankhwal said.

“GPS collars will help gather crucial data. Unavailability of data is a problem,” he said adding that it is merely a means and part of the many technological interventions which are being considered but the problem needs to be tackled on the ground.

The forest department is also considering raising an in-house team of mahouts to train elephants which would be used to drive away rogue elephants.

“Mahouts from Assam have been engaged by other states but we do not have a sufficient number ourselves,” said Das.

The 2017 census put the population of elephants in the northeast at 10,139 of which 5,719 are found in Assam.

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Elephants kill man in Jharkhand

Ranchi: A man was trampled to death by a herd of elephants in Jharkhands Jamtara district on Thursday.

According to police, a herd of 22 elephants reached Nurgi village from Dhanbad district. The victim, Rustam Mia, had gone to answer nature’s call.

The elephants chased him and trampled him to death. The forest department officials reached the spot and took the body.

The man’s family was given a cheque of Rs 25,000 on Thursday.

The Jharkhand government gives Rs 1 lakh compensation to people killed by elephants. Of this, Rs 25,000 is handed over instantly and the rest is given after completion of official formalities.

In Jharkhand, more than 800 people have been trampled to death by elephants since 2000.

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Elephant tramples man to death in Dhenkanal

Dhenkanal: In yet another incident of pachyderm attack in the state, a man was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Gengutia village under Dhenkanal Sadar Tehsil on Saturday.

The deceased has been identified as Sushant Behera, a labourer by profession and a resident of the same village.

The victim was on his way to work in Dhenkanal Town riding a bicycle when came across a wild tusker which has sneaked into the village last night. The jumbo pounced on the victim and trampled him to death on the spot.

Some bystanders who witnessed the incident called up the victim’s family and informed about his death.

Tension engulfed the village following the incident as villagers blocked the Dhenkanal-Kamakhyanagar Road protesting the growing incidents of elephant incursion into the area and blamed Forest Department’s negligence for it.

Police and forest officials reached the spot and pacified the angry locals with assurance of compensation to the family of the victim later in the day.

Growing elephant attacks in Kamakhyanagar, Odapada and Dhenkanal blocks in past few months has left people in these areas in a state of panic.


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Jumbo tramples man to death

Balangir: A jumbo trampled a man to death at Ghuchang village of Kantamal forest range in Boudh district on Tuesday morning.

The deceased has been identified as Bharat Bagarty, 35, of nearby Kutakheta village. The Kantamal forest range officer has reached the spot to take stock of the situation. The incident has created panic among the villagers in the area.

Sources said the incident occurred when Bagarty was going to Kantamal on a bicycle with his friend to attend a meeting. While riding through the forest road near Ghuchang village, the duo came face to face with a herd of elephants. Both tried to flee the spot leaving their bicycle behind. While Bagarty's friend had a narrow escape, he could not escape the elephant attack.

Villagers attribute such incidents to lack of water and food in the forest for the wild animal. Kantamal resident Shantanu Pradhan said wild animals, especially the elephants, were often straying into human habitations because of want of food and water in the forest. "Not much is done by the forest department to ensure sufficient water and food for animals in the forest. This makes them stray into human habitations resulting in such tragic incident like this one. Water scarcity is acute in the forest of the Kantamal range during the summer. This elephants' herd must have come near the village in search of water," he said.

Kantamal forest range officer-in-charge Saroj Kumar Mishra said the family of the deceased would be compensated according to the government rule. "We are keeping tabs on the herd. We have recovered the body and sent it for post-mortem," Mishra said.


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Elephant tramples man to death

A 48-year-old man was trampled to death by an elephant in the Laldhang forest range of Pauri district, a forest official said on Thursday. Bhopal Singh, a resident of Nathukhal village, had gone for some work to Beat No. 7 of the Laldhang forest range, a reserved area which is also considered an elephant corridor, on Wednesday afternoon, range officer Virendra Pal Singh said. However, when he did not return home in the evening, villagers started searching for him. They informed the forest department after Bhopal’s trampled body was spotted in the reserved forest area late at night, the official said. The body had been sent to Kotdwar for a post-mortem examination, he added. — PTI


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Elephant tramples man to death

A 48-year-old man was trampled to death by an elephant in the Laldhang forest range of Pauri district, a forest official said on Thursday.


Bhopal Singh, a resident of Nathukhal village, had gone for some work to Beat No. 7 of the Laldhang forest range, a reserved area which is also considered an elephant corridor, on Wednesday afternoon, range officer Virendra Pal Singh said. However, when he did not return home in the evening, villagers started searching for him. They informed the forest department after Bhopal’s trampled body was spotted in the reserved forest area late at night, the official said. The body had been sent to Kotdwar for a post-mortem examination, he added. — PTI


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