The charm of the Elephant Festival has returned in Sauraha, a touristic town in the centre of southern Terai, as herd of tuskers has taken to the street after being halted for three consecutive years due to the COVID pandemic.
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.
Belinda Stuwart Cox from the British Asian Trust, UK, officially opened the fence, symbolising a significant step in mitigating human-elephant conflict.
A herd of wild elephants in Malaysia trampled a car on a major highway after it collided with a young elephant calf, CNN reported, citing local authorities.
Five wild elephants entered the agricultural lands in the Aranmanai Pallam area in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu on Friday and damaged various standing crops.
The Tamil Nadu Forest Department warned people of more than 10 villages to be alert after more than 30 wild elephants entered the Nokkanur Forest of Denkanikottai Forest Reserve near Hosur in the state.
A herd of 10 wild elephants used to damage standing paddy in crop fields of the Maliata area in Kamrup district around the harvesting season causing hardship to the farmers.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Tuesday attended the Valedictory Function of Wildlife Week 2023 and said that the survey on the population of elephants and other wildlife in the State is under the government's agenda.
According to Katghora Divisional Forest Officer, Nishant Kumar, "The cause of the unusual 'chakka jam' was an elephant calf that had fallen into a deep ditch next to the highway, prompting the herd of elephants to intervene."
Tamil Nadu forest department officials have been monitoring the wild elephants in the Gudalur and the Pandalur areas of Nilgiri district as they increasingly enter the human habitats and cause destruction to properties and standing crops in the areas.