Tag: Tusker

‘500 tusker deaths annually points to man-animal conflict’

“With competition for resources, (the number of) human-animal conflicts are increasing, and it is very unfortunate that around 500 people are killed in elephant attacks and 100 jumbos are killed in retaliation annually,” Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said.

August 12, 2022

Narrow escape for passengers as tusker chases bus on Odisha highway

The incident, according to official sources, took place on Sunday near Rasgovindpur of the district. The male elephant came from nowhere to push the bus with its trunk and tusk.

January 10, 2022

Odisha puts on hold the elephant-radio-collaring project after tusker injures five forest staff

The department had decided to tag three problematic tuskers in Chandaka wildlife sanctuary, Khordha and Dhenkanal with radio collars to track their migration path in a bid to curb the incidence of pachyderm depredation in human habitation areas.

November 23, 2021

Killer tusker’s return haunts Angul residents

Panic gripped both Handappa and Chhendipada forest range areas following the return of a killer tusker who has so far claimed 30 lives in five years. Teams of Nandankanan and Odisha University of Technology have over the years made four attempts to tame it but failed. The last such attempt was in February. The team...

March 9, 2018

The inner elephant

An adult elephant, it is estimated, eats from 500 lbs to 600 lbs of green fodder daily. This estimate is based on experiments conducted by Sanderson and others on well-fed tame elephants, and while it is generally unsound equating the habits and behaviour of captive animals with others of their kind living free, this is...

January 21, 2018

Radio collar for Haridwar tusker

The Uttarakhand forest department has said the wild elephant that was tranquilised in Haridwar is still in their possession and will released in the jungle only after it is fixed with a radio collar. The forest department had to conduct a long and tedious operation on Friday night to take the killer elephant to Mithawalla...

January 20, 2018

Killer elephant tranquilised, taken to jungle

The over one-and-a-half month long terror of a wild elephant at Jwalapur locality in Haridwar ended on Friday, with the forest department tranquilising and shifting the tusker to another part of the forest. The elephant had created panic by killing two persons and injuring two other in recent weeks. Since the past two days the...

January 19, 2018