Wild elephants terrorise locals in Koshi Tappu

Rajbiraj, December 27

Wild elephants are wreaking havoc around Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve in eastern Nepal, locals say.

Residents living on the northern and eastern side of the reserve say they have been constantly living under threat of wild elephants.

Sovitlal Paghaiya Yadav of Hanuman Nagar Kankalini Municipality-3 in Saptari said elephants from the reserve have been destroying their houses and crops. Two days ago, a herd of three tuskers damaged three houses in Sitapur in Kanchanpur in Saptari, shared Uttam Acharya, a local.

Locals feel that local authorities are turning a blind eye to the wild elephant menace in Rupani Rural Municipality. Dozens of house owners have fled their houses fearing the elephants.

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Madi locals prevent district authorities to retrieve bodies

The locals at Madi in Chitwan district have not allowed the local authority to retrieve the bodies of two women who were killed in wild elephant attack on Wednesday noon.

They have also taken to street and obstructed the vehicular movement here Thursday demanding the permanent solution to their perpetual problem with the district authorities, the menace of wild elephants.

Furthermore, they have also padlocked the four offices of the Community Forest in the buffer zone.

Madi Municipality Mayor Thakur Dhakal shared that the locals were seeking sustainable solutions to the wild elephant menace in their locality.

Chief District Officer of Chitwan, Jitendra Basnet said the bodies of two would be retrieved addressing the demands of the locals to the best of their capacity.

Meanwhile, the Chitwan National Park Chief Conservation Officer Ved Kumar Dhakal shared a technical team comprising Purusottam Pandey and Kiran Rijal had been dispatched to the National Park to track the wild elephants and to tranquilize them.

They have been instructed to cut short the tusks of the wild elephants after tranquilizing them.

Five years back, a wild elephant named Dhrube had killed six persons causing terror among the locals in Madi.

The protesting Madi locals have demanded with the authority for the proper compensation to the victim’s family, amendment in the National Park and Forest Conservation Act in the best interest of the locals, control of wild animal’s entry into human settlements, among others.

Sushila Bhandari, 35, and Trishna Kali Poudel, 60, were killed by the wild elephants while they were cutting grass for fodder at Madi Municipality-9 along the bank of the Reu River.

A total of eight persons in the National Park and the buffer zone areas in Chitwan district have lost their lives to the attack of the wild animals as of now in the current fiscal year, according to the Chitwan National Park.

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Highway disruption against Dhrube’s menace continues

Chitwan, (RSS): The Bharatpur-Madi-Thori postal highway has been disrupted since this morning following a protest of locals against the menace of the wild elephant named Dhrube.

The pachyderm on Sunday night demolished five houses at Khadgauli of Bharatpur Metropolitan City-23, enraging locals who decided to take to the street demanding compensation from the Chitwan National Park (CNP) administration for the losses. They closed the highway from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Sunday as well at Ghailaghari that lies near the entrance to the CNP.

Families of Ram Bahadur Darai, Shanta Kumar Darai, Buddiram Darai, Mayaram Darai and Magara Darai have become homeless with the elephant destroying their houses, said Nepal Darai Upliftment Society, Town Upliftment Committee. The society has supported the protest.Chitwan’s Chief District Officer, Narayan Prasad Bhatta, said the CNP administration was already directed to address the issues and ensure the resumption of the highway.

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Forest path being constructed for stopping elephant menace

BANIYANI, JHAPA — Construction of footpath has started in the forest areas around Bhadrapur Municipality in Jhapa district in a bid to controlling the wild elephant menace.

The forest trail is being constructed in the forest at Ward Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the municipality, said Kajiman Rai, the chief administrative officer of the Municipality. The municipality has allocated Rs 5.5 million for the construction of the forest path in the fiscal year 2017/18.

Mayor Jeevan Kumar Shrestha said attractive and safe trail is being constructed linking the community forests at various municipality wards also keeping in mind the possibility of tourism development.

Works on construction of the forest path have been started from Dasrathpur community forest at Ward No. 1 of the municipality. Mayor Shrestha said the path would be constructed in such a way that there would be no risk of wild elephants as wire fence would be constructed on both sides of the road to prevent their entry.

The forest path will connect the municipality wards from Ward No. 1 to 4.

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