We hear so much of the problems created by elephants destroying dwellings, and even causing death of life of human and cattle, specially in rural eastern India.
A new regional plan to tackle human-elephant conflict in eastern and central India has proposed a number of strategic measures, from creating “elephant removal zones” to relocating or even holding captive “problem” elephants that roam on agricultural land. In 2016-17, this region reported at least 253 deaths of people, the highest in the country related to this conflict, with crops being destroyed and livelihoods affected.
The strategic plan was discussed at a meeting Wednesday of wildlife wardens from five states in this region — Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal — as a first step towards better inter-state coordination to tackle over 3,000 elephants in the zone.
Read more of this in a report by Sowmiya Ashok published in The Indian Express....
