Odisha facing man-animal conflicts with elephants

Odisha has taken a number of actions to prevent man-animal conflict with elephants. They have dug elephant trenches and installed solar fencing to prevent elephants from coming into human habitation and elephant trackers are also working regularly to drive the elephants away. But there is little improvement.
In the latest incident, over the past two days a herd of elephants have kept the National Highway near Khuntuni blocked for over two hours and, as a result, hundreds of vehicles were stranded on the road. The forest department's elephant tracking squad could do very little to drive the herd away.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 1 March 2017.

The location is the Athgarh division and it has been witnessing these problems over the past few years because the elephants of Chandaka wildlife sanctuary keep straying into the region for food. AT present there is a herd of around 22 elephants in the locality.
Over the past one year the area has witnessed several cases of man-animal conflicts in which two elephants got electrocuted and four persons were killed. As per government data, Athgarh forest division itself has 114 resident elephants.


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