Tag: Man Elephant Conflict

In yet another incident of man-elephant conflict, an elderly couple was trampled to death by a herd of elephants. The incident was reported from Nimapur village in Jagatpur area of Cuttack district in the wee hours of Wednesday.

The herd had been on a rampage since last night, damaging a number of vehicles and houses.  

The irate villagers demanded that the jumbos be chased away from their village and suitable compensation for the damaged crops provided  to them. 

Not only automated text, but voice messages are also being sent to a selected database of phone numbers of people from different villages where the movement of elephants is more frequent.

Elephant face-offs with villagers take place in the same places year after year. This shows no preventive solution adopted. Change in crop pattern will do wonder

A 3-month old elephant calf fell into a well and got separated from the herd in Keonjhar.

Elephant herd from ‘Jharkhand’ strays into Karanjia forest division, Odisha

Terror engulfed the town of Rajgangpur after wild elephants entered the outskirts of the town. A herd of over 8 elephants entered the town of Rajgangpur on Tuesday (August 17).

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 […]

Bhubaneswar: Rise in the incidents of man-animal conflict has not only taken a toll on human lives across Odisha but also resulted in death of pachyderms at regular intervals besides adding to loss of property. Movement of stray elephants from core forest areas towards human settlements have posed a big threat to humans and also […]

Cuttack: Treatment of a sick elephant, found lying today in a crop field near Haladibasanta village under Dalijoda Forest Range in the district, has begun. “It seems the elephant has developed an abscess in the mouth. Its treatment is underway and we hope it will get well soon,” said a veterinary doctor, Antaryami Khuntia. Earlier […]

Keonjhar: Locals residing in villages under the Keonjhar forest division are in a state of panic after 160 wild elephants from neighbouring Jharkhand strayed into the region. The pachyderms were spotted moving around in groups across the division. According to sources from the forest department, at least 68 elephants were spotted inside Champua Forest Range […]

Bhubaneswar: With the rise in human-elephant conflict in Odisha, the state forest department is trying to do its bit by expediting the disbursal of compensation to victims of the menace and doing everything possible to avert mishaps on both sides, PCCF (Wildlife) Sandeep Tripathy informed. His comments came on the backdrop of recent man-elephant conflicts […]

Sambalpur/Mayurbhanj: A man was killed reportedly after being trampled by a herd of elephants in Bamara forest division of Kuchinda. The deceased has been identified as Sunil Ekka (45) of Mahulmunda village. According to sources, the incident occurred early morning today when Sunil was returning to his village from Dumbermunda. Receiving information from locals, forest […]

Jajpur: The district administration of Jajpur has asked authorities to shut down all primary and high schools in Korei and Vyasanagar area of the district in view of a stray elephant that has been causing peril in the region for the past few days. As per reports, the tusker was initially spotted venturing into Vyasanagar […]