(IN): Man-Animal conflict: Brahmaputra water turns red with jumbo blood (Assam)

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*Man-Animal conflict: Brahmaputra water turns red with jumbo blood (Assam)*

 

Pioneer: Retaliatory killings of elephants are increasing in Assam, as

human-elephant conflict intensifies on the northern bank of Brahmaputra,

home to India's largest Asian elephant population. Since September, at least

seven elephants — three female, two male and two male calves — have been

killed either by poisoning or electrocution, while four persons, including a

55-year-old woman, lost their lives in elephant attacks. Last week, a

full-grown female elephant was found dead — suspected to be a case of

poisoning - at Orangajuli tea estate in Udalguri district on Indo-Bhutan

border. People in Assam, where they perform rituals to mourn elephant

deaths, are often found targeting the animals as the herd forages into human

habitations for food, and often become targets of human wrath. An adult

elephant requires 400 kg of food per day. Tea gardens along the foothills of

Indo-Bhutan borders, many of which fall on the way of elephant corridors,

are particularly vulnerable to elephant depredations, and most of the recent

cases of human-elephant conflicts have been reported in those areas, a

forest official said. Incidents of elephant depredations and human-elephant

conflict rise between August and January.

 

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