Leaders of various political parties started a twelve-hour protest in Kerala's Wayanad on Saturday morning following the death of a 50-year-old man who was attacked by wild elephants.
Aaranyak, an Assam-based biodiversity conservation group has put up 12 signboards at strategic locations in the Udalguri, Tamulpur, and Baksa districts to ensure the safe passage of wildlife and people across busy roads. The districts are in the Bodoland Territorial Region bordering Bhutan.
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.
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.