The destruction got worse when a group of around 13 elephants entered the fields in Venkatagirikota on Sunday night and Monday morning and destroyed crops and mango trees causing huge losses, complained locals.
While speaking to reporters at Halebeedu Helipad, he said the elephants which had come here following drought for many years have not returned, and other reasons for the jumbo attacks are human beings entering forests for some reasons and climate change.
In the wake of the rise in the man-elephant conflict in four districts of Karnataka, a meeting presided over by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday, resolved to constitute an elephant task force in four districts to check the menace of wild elephants.