In Dalma range, despite the death of the pachyderms, the villagers have constructed electrical fencing to protect the agricultural produce and, no less crucially, their homes. In the span of a week, such unauthorized fences have claimed the lives of two full-grown elephants in Bankura.
March 17, 2022The State has already reported 97 human deaths and 96 in HEC in 2021-22 so far. In the last six weeks the Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) has been raging in all elephant-bearing districts with more elephants entering villages in search of food.
January 20, 2022The radio collars will be Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled and will track the real time location of problematic wild elephants.
June 25, 2021According to local sources, the incident took place on Friday when an elephant came in contact with live electric wires illegally put up around a cultivable land near the Khairakata area inside the Diana forest range.
November 1, 2020The elephant will now receive "medical treatment and veterinary care along with proper medical procedures, including laser therapy and hydrotherapy".
October 8, 2020The exclusion of coal blocks in these areas from the auction would be appropriate because of the region's rich flora and find apart from abundant mineral wealth including coal, the forest minister further wrote.
June 22, 2020Gandhi had said that Malappuram is India’s most violent district and an elephant is killed every 3 days in Kerala.
June 6, 2020Meanwhile, it is alleged that the killing was not deliberate as the elephant had walked into a trap laid for wild boars that come to destroy the crops frequently.
June 5, 2020Earlier in the day, the Central government taking a serious note of the incident, had said that it will leave no stone unturned to investigate properly and nab the culprits.
June 4, 2020Meanwhile, Kerala Forest Minister K Raju has warned of strict action against the culprits responsible for the killing of the pregnant elephant.
June 4, 2020The wild animal came out of the forests of the Silent Valley in Attappadi to the village area in search of food, where somebody fed her the pineapple embedded with cracker which is generally used by local farmers to protest their crops against wild boars.
June 3, 2020A video was shared was Indian Forest Services (IFS) officer Parveen Kaswan in which the forest officials were seen rescuing the elephant.
April 16, 2020State forest minister Rajib Banerjee incidentally arrived at the district today itself and flagged off the fifth Banabandhav festival at Gangajalghanti Range, where one villager was killed by a tusker a fortnight back.
February 15, 2020The habeas corpus plea was filed by mahout Saddam seeking the release of the 47-year-old elephant.
January 9, 2020Mr Basu said that that the government had already hiked the compensation from Rs 50,000 but what is needed was a deterrent that can prevent the elephant onslaught.
June 28, 2019The elephant was first seen in Angul forest division two months ago. From there the forest authorities drove the animal into Satkosia division where it was staying since last month.
June 26, 2019