Tag: Man Animal Conflict

Dhenkanal: In another incident of man-animal conflict in Odisha, a daily wage labourer was killed in elephant attack at Gengutia under Sadar police limits in Dhenkanal district on Saturday. The deceased identified as Sushant Behera of Gengutia village was on his way to Dhenkanal town along with two other co-workers when a pachyderm attacked the […]

Cuttack: In yet another incident of elephant attack, a man was trampled to death by a wild tusker at Kalijanga village under Tigiria block in Athagarh Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Shyamsundar Mohanty. As per sources, Shyamsundar along with other locals had gone to his agriculture field to pluck brinjals. Seeing a tusker […]

Sambalpur/Baripada: Two elderly persons, including a woman, were trampled to death by an elephant at Makarkenda village in Rairakhol of Sambalpur district on Friday night. The deceased have been identified as Sambhu Bhoi (65) and Daimati Bhoi (70). After getting information about the presence of a herd of elephants in the area, Daimati had gone […]

Dhenkanal: Dhenkanal district witnessed the fifth elephant attack this week after an elderly man was trampled to death by a jumbo this morning at Bangrusingh village under Sadar police station. Following the incident, the forest officials issued an alert asking locals in the area to remain indoors during evenings. According to reports, the deceased identified […]

Dhenkanal: In yet another incident of man-animal conflict in State, a labourer was trampled to death by a wild elephant near Goudakateni canal under Motanga police limits in Dhenkanal district today. The deceased has been identified as Gobinda Chandra Debata, a resident of Brahmapur village in Banki in Cuttack district. Gobinda was engaged in some […]

Dhenkanal: Two persons were trampled to death by wild elephants in two separate incidents in Dhenakanal district today. The deceased have been identified as Niranjan Mohanty of Damodarnali village under Gandia police limits and Achyuta Rout of Chaulia village in the district. Mohanty who had gone out into the field to relieve himself, was attacked […]

Rourkela: An ex-Sarpanch was trampled to death by a tusker at Harpali village under Kuanrmunda Forest Range in Sundergarh district this morning. The deceased identified as Ramka Oram, former Sarpanch of Kacharu Gram Panchayat, was the member of a squad formed to drive away pachyderms. The incident occurred when he was driving away an elephant […]

Dhenkanal: In a fresh incident of man-animal conflict, a woman was trampled to death by a tusker at Srirampur village under Bhuban Forest Range in Dhenkanal district this morning. The deceased was identified as Kagaja Pani, who was attacked by the wild animal when she had gone to a nulla near the village to take […]

Bhubaneswar: With instances of deaths while taking selfie with elephants on the rise in Odisha, the forest department has now decided to intensify awareness campaigns to prevent such casualties. Official sources said, workshops and other programmes will be initiated  in nearly 90 percent of regions that have frequent movement of elephants particularly in Jharsuguda, Rourkela, […]

Rourkela: A man was trampled to death by an elephant at Kultuli basti of Jharbeda village under Kuanrmunda range here on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Naveen Kerketta. According to reports, Kerketta was sleeping in his house when a wild jumbo strayed into the basti and damaged his house and crushed him to […]

Athagarh: Without realising the risk involved, some youths were seen posing for selfies with a herd of wild elephants near Baula in Khuntuni range under Athagarh forest division. A visual capturing the risky encounter showed youths getting extremely close to the wild animals- some running awkwardly towards them while few others busy posing for photos. […]

Nuapada: In a tragic incident, an elderly man was trampled to death by wild elephants near Oreibahar village in Nuapada district Monday morning. The incident took place this morning near the Haladi forest when the deceased, Lati Pandey had gone to attend nature’s call. While returning home, suddenly a group of five elephants attacked and […]

Bolangir: There has been a rise in incidents of wild animals straying into human settlements as four such cases have been reported from Bolangir district in the last two months. Today, two persons at Raksimunda village under Puintala police limits were injured in a bear attack. On May 12 a bear had entered Bichuali village […]

Bhubaneswar/Cuttack: For the wildlife personnel, a distressed pachyderm with a motor tyre stuck in one of its legs nearly two months back continues to be a cause of worry. Last sighted in Athgarh forest area in Cuttack district, the forest officials have renewed its exercise to disentangle the ‘foreign’ object from the animal’s leg by […]

Bolangir: Carcasses of a female elephant and its calf found in apaddy field at Bakati village in the district today. The jumbos are suspected to have come in search of foods as the paddy harvesting season is on. The reason of the death has not yet been ascertained, said forest officials who rushed to the […]