HUMAN-ELEPHANT CONFLICT: CASE STUDY FROM TAMIL NADU
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2016
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In India, the increase in population of elephant with no increase in forest area
poses danger to the farmers of both small scale subsistence agriculture and international
agribusiness. This leads to human-elephant conflict to get place in major national and
regional newspapers. There are cases of human kill, human injury, cattle kill, house damage
and crop damage and also retaliatory killing of wild elephants. Hence a case study was
conducted at the Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu to understand the extent of damage
caused by elephants to the farmers and their families in agriculture and animal husbandry.
This study confirmed that pretending to be dead after the attack of elephant may help the
affected individual at some extent. The common reasons for the intrusion of elephants into
cultivable land are the replacement of elephant habitat by agriculture, increased elephant
population, etc., The main strategy to mitigate the HEC is change in cultivation practices, use
of modern ICT tools to drive away the intruding elephants.