Bora’s team now plans to identify more conflict zones in other villages and raise awareness about human-elephant coexistence. Aritra Kshettry, WWF-India’s national lead for elephant ...

The deaths of four persons in elephant attacks in less than a month at Naxalbari block of Siliguri subdivision have prompted the state forest department to beef up vigil and prevent human-animal ...

Chhattisgarh accounted for 15 percent of India's elephant-related human casualties in the last ... on loudspeakers in villages in key conflict zones as a "second line of defence", he added.

The app will initially be introduced in high-intensity human-elephant conflict zones in Goalpara, Chirang and Baksa, before being tried in other parts of the northeast. The app is designed to ...

Guwahati (Assam) [India], December ... However, human activities such as farming, road use, and settlement expansion often overlap these routes, creating zones of conflict. The signages are ...

One of the prominent efforts is a special morning broadcast on All India Radio called ‘Haathi ... bringing the human-elephant conflict issue to the forefront of wildlife management in the ...

“The elephants didn’t mean them any harm” explained a resident from Bannerghatta, India who ... lifestyles. Human-elephant interaction becomes human-elephant conflict, creating a ...

To address the ongoing human-elephant conflict (HEC), a solar-powered electric fence has ... coexistence, and exclusion zones. The widespread Asian elephant, due to its need for extensive resources, ...

Official statistics show the human-wildlife conflict has been ... 2,727 people died due to elephant attacks and 349 people were killed by tiger attacks in India between 2019 and 2024.

Dhawalpur (India ... messages when an elephant is within five kilometres (three miles)." Announcements are also broadcast on loudspeakers in villages in key conflict zones as a "second line ...