Wildlife’s body suggests ways to reduce human-elephant conflicts throughout the state

Bhubaneswar: Overall 730 people were killed in human-elephant conflicts in Odisha since April 2014, while 611 Jumbos died for various reasons including electricity, poisoning, hunting, road and train accidents during the same period.
This has encouraged Odisha animals to suggest several steps that can be done to reduce conflict.
On Sunday night, two ivory deviated to the village of Sagadabhanga in the District of Sundargarh and trampling at Mohan Palei who was 60 years old to death.
On Saturday, 58-year-old Hansda Figu from Ballasore District was killed by a Tusker when he defecated in Open.
A few days ago, a foul was seriously injured when driving away a elephant in the area of the Khurda regency.
In the same incident, a member of the Elephant team was killed while driving away the jumbos from Barsuan in the Sundargarh district.
So far, around 97 people were killed in this year’s human-elephant conflict in Odisha.
“At 50% of cases, it was found that people meet elephants when they went to escape the forest in the morning.
The department must convince them to use the toilet because almost all have a Swachh Bharat toilet,” Secretary WSO Bisarnit Mohanty said.
Driving home messages, he emphasized that only using toilets can help drop the number of human-elephant meetings.
“It is seen that some elephants, aggressive, kill many people at once.
It is possible to prevent these incidents if this jumbo is identified and continued to be tracked by experts.
Tracking often takes back seats with most trackers deployed elsewhere,” said Mohanty.
Using elephants is another problem.
When they found parents, who couldn’t run, they killed them wholeheartedly.
The Ministry of Forestry must prevent this abuse by installing a warning board and punishing offenders, reading parts of the WSO advice.
“About 25% of human victims occur when elephants attack rice and liquor stored in straw homes.
Great door-to-door campaigns need to be launched by the Ministry of Forestry to make people aware of the dangers of storing food grains and liquor in the room Sleep, “Mohanty said.