Wild elephants move into villages, trample crops

SHAHJHANPUR: Over two dozen wild elephants went on rampage in
villages around Majhgai range of Dudhwa tiger reserve over the past few
days. A herd of wild elephants, roughly over 25, move into villages and
trample the standing crops almost every day. Even though villagers have
sought help, the forest department is yet to take any substantial action to
control the damages caused by pachyderms. There are two herds of wild
elephants that have migrated from Nepal forests to Dudhwa Tiger reserve.

Their movement could be seen around the core and buffer area of the reserve.

On Tuesday evening, a herd of elephants entered into Chokhra farm and
destroyed around 2.5 acres of the standing wheat crop . The movement of
these wild elephants is quite frequent in Chokhra farm, Bhagwant Nagar and nearby villages. A months ago, a wild elephant had killed an elderly man and injured three persons. Due to aggressive nature of these elephants, villagers are scared of taking action against them. On the other hand, forest department says that the movement of these elephants is mainly during the night when it becomes difficult to take any action.

DFO, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve buffer area, Anil Patel said, “so far it doesn’t look like that these elephants have deviated from their normal route. Few villagers have started farming extremely near to the forest area. We are keeping a track on these elephants and assessing the losses caused to the farmers.”

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A fleeting woman was killed by an elephant in Nepal

An elephant killed a woman near a nature reserve in southeastern Nepal, local police said Sunday.

The woman escaped from her home on Saturday morning when her neighbor alerted her that an elephant had arrived in the city.

Over the past three months, a man and two women have been killed in the area of ​​wild elephants coming from the Kosi Tappu Wildlife Reserve. According to the family of the victim, one million rupees (2.5 million forints) will be compensated by the state if it leads to the death of an animal. In recent years, the number of wildlife attacks in settlements near forests and forests in the Southeast Asian country has increased.

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A fleeting woman was killed by an elephant in Nepal

The elephant killed a woman near a nature reserve in southeastern Nepal, said the local police Sunday.

The woman escaped from her home on Saturday dawn when her neighbor worried her that an elephant was coming to the city.

Over the past three months, a man and two women have been killed in the area of ​​wild elephants who migrated from the Kosi Tappu Wildlife Reserve there. According to the victim's family, one million rupees (2.5 million shots) are offset by the state if it causes death in an animal. In recent years, the number of game attacks in settlements near forests and forests has increased in the Southeast Asian country. s)

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Wild elephants on rampage in Jhapa district

Wild elephants have been terrorising locals by entering human settlements in the northern parts of Damak Municipality, Jhapa. The wild tuskers have destroyed crops and houses over the past few days.

Locals said wild elephants from Hamsedumse Community Forest, which is 12 km from Damak Municipality, had been straying into human settlements and creating havoc.

Local Kul Bahadur BK said, human lives were also at risk.

Another local Padam Lal Tamang said hundreds of locals entered the forest chasing the tuskers away. “We are compelled to spend sleepless nights as elephants enter the settlements at night,” he added.

Although elephants straying into human settlements is a recurring problem in the area, the local government has yet to take any measures for locals’ security.

Damak Municipality Mayor Ram Nath Oli said they were working out a permanent solution to the problem. Meanwhile, he urged everybody to stay alert.

The locals are compelled to work during the day and stay awake during nights due to fear of wild tuskers. Wild elephants have destroyed property worth millions and tonnes of stored food grains over the years. Locals have been seeking a permanent solution to the problems.

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Indian border force dismantles electric fence on Nepal side

Apr 28, 2018-The Indian Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has uprooted the electric fence installed at Punarbas, a village in Kanchanpur that shares border with India. Sharada Bista, the deputy mayor of Punarabas Municipality, said the SSB men on Wednesday entered the Nepali territory and dismantled the fence that was installed to keep off wild elephants from entering the border settlements.

Wild elephants from Dudhuwa National Park in India have long been troubling the people living along the border in the district. Keshav Prasad Timilsina, a Punarbas local, said they had recently completed installing the fence.

Superintendent of Police Dilliraj Bista said the fence installation work has been stopped for the time being as the district authority is planning to conduct a border survey from a joint team of the two countries to settle the long-standing territory dispute at Punarbas.

Last year, a man from Punarbas-8 had died when the Indian border security force opened fire at the villagers over a dispute of culvert construction close to the border.



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Tusker terror keeps locals awake all night

The villagers are keeping vigil at night due to the fear of wild tuskers’ possible attack. Dozens of people had lost their lives after the wild elephants from Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve had entered into the human settlements and attacked them.

Durga Devi Yadav, 45, of Kanchanrup Municipality died after the wild tusker attacked her while she was asleep yesterday night, said police. A local, Sallam Shek from Theliya said that the villagers could not sleep fearing elephant attack.

Uttam Acharya of Rupnagar said the authority concerned had taken no initiatives to protect the people from the attack of wild elephants even though many people had already lost their lives. The locals of Phattepur, Kanchanpur, Ghoghanpur, Bairaba, Badagama, Jagatpur, Rupnagar, Bhardaha, Kamalpur, Odraha, Theliya, Mahuli and Hamumannagar are compelled to live in fear and spend sleepless nights.

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Jumbo menace rattles villagers near India-Nepal border

Residents of at least half a dozen villages in Champawat’s Tanakpur are spending sleepless night due to marauding herd of wild elephants in the region that forage through standing crop and fruit orchards. Villagers say that they are forced to stay awake at night to drive away the wild herds to save their crops and dwellings. Over the last one year, residents of villages in the region, including Thwalkhera, Khetkhera, Gaindakhali, Naya Goth, Kakrali gate, Uchauligoth and Bastia lived in fear of a tiger that was reported to roaming the region surrounded by dense forest on one side and the other by the India-Nepal border. Four women from the Kakrali gate, Thawalkhera, Naya Goth and Bastia were allegedly mauled to death by the big cats in less than a year while collecting fodder and firewood in the forest, villagers say. This apart, villagers have lost a number of livestock that fell prey to the big cats, some of them say. Following the increase in the incidents of man-animal conflicts in the region, forest officials placed cages and camera traps to catch the big cats in Sharda and Boom range but have failed to capture the tiger, villagers say, and add that forest officials do not respond to their desperate calls for help. Satish pandey, a villager, says, “Whenever we inform the forest officials, they don’t turn up in time to chase the elephant herds so we ourselves, have to ward off the animals by beating drums and utensils or bursting crackers.” “The forest watch and ward staff do not patrol region.” Tanakpur sub divisional officer Rajesh Srivastva, however, says that the villages fall in the periphery of an elephant corridor, which starts from the Rajaji Tiger Reserve to the western parts of Nepal. “Movements of pachyderms along the villages that fall on the elephant corridor are considered quite common.” He, however, says that the elephants do not enter the villages in search of fodder as it is in abundance in the forest. “Elephants by nature migrate from one place to another are known to destroy whatever comes on the way as it is the behavioral instinct of elephants.”.

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Wild elephant menace in Kanchanpur village

Wild elephants straying from the Shuklaphanta National Park are wrecking havoc in the adjacent villages, said the locals.

Recently on Thursday night, a herd of the tuskers entered the settlement of Pipaladi in Shuklaphanta municipality-3, and destroyed houses of the locals and ripen wheat crops on around 31 bighas of farmland, said they said. The loss estimation is around Rs 1.5 million.

A week ago, the pachyderms demolished at least 21 human huts set up in the Park area, said a local
Chuluwa Chaudhary, adding that the locals, in some cases, are forced to spend sleepless nights due to fear of elephant attacks.

In a bid to ward off the wild animals, the locals have come up with traditional means like whistle-blowing but with little effects.

When asked, Narendra Prasad Chaudhary, mayor of the municipality, said fencing the village with electric barbed wires has started to prevent wild elephants from entering the settlements.

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Tuskers terrorise human settlement in Sindhuli

• SINDHULI: Wild tuskers’ rampage has terrorised the locals in Sindhuli for over a month. Locals have been fearful with the wild elephants entering into human settlement during the evening and night times.

This has compelled people to stay awake throughout the nights.

A herd of five wild elephants was seen in the market area of Sindhuli on Thursday morning.

The wild elephants had caused damages to a house in Bhiman last night and a team of police personnel has been mobilised there for security, said Chief District Officer Janak Raj Dahal.

Loss of property will be assessed and made public once the police team reaches there, he added.


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Tuskers terrorise Araria villagers, injure 2 minors

ARARIA: Two minors were severely injured by a herd of six wild elephants at Barmasia village under Sikti block in Araria district on Friday.

Forest officials said the rampage by the wild tuskers has been going on from past three months, ever since they entered from adjoining forests in Nepal to Kishanganj and Araria and killed three persons.

 Residents of almost all panchayats of Dighalbank block in Kishanganj district have complained that the elephants destroyed standing maize crop in the fields. The worst affected villages include Dhantola, Karubamini, Athgachhia, Uttar Korehili, Banswari, Surivitta, Barahbhang, Talwar Bandh and Chahatpur.

Forest officials said the elephants have destroyed standing maize crops and injured people in Simalbani and Kuchha villages under Sikti block of Araria district.

“The elephants keep coming back from Nepal even after they are made to run away from here through burning of firecrackers. The arrival of elephants in these villages is due to deforestation in adjoining areas of Nepal. Widespread cultivation of maize crop in the villages in Araria and Kishanganj districts is also luring the tuskers,” Araria district forest officer (DFO) Dinesh Chandra Das, who is camping at Kuraihily village in the district from past few days, said. 

Officials said the standing maize crop, its green leaves and selves attract the elephants. “Three farmers have been trampled by the elephants over the last one month. The elephants have destroyed more than 100 acres of standing maize crop in villages along Indo-Nepal border in Kishanganj district,” Das said. He warned villagers against clicking selfies near the elephants.

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Wild elephants on rampage destroy houses

A herd of wild elephants destroyed two houses at Jonapur of Shuklaphanta Municipality-3 in Kanchanpur district on Saturday night.

The tuskers destroyed the houses of Deepak Humli and Bir Bahadur Chaudhary. They also gobbled the food grain and tore the beddings and other items in the houses.

The occupants of the houses escaped the site to save their lives.

Deepak’s wife, a nursing woman, saved her life by hiding under the bed with her infant.

The locals evacuated after sirens were sounded and there was hullaballoo in the village. The elephants came from the Tarapur area of the Shuklaphanta National Park entered the settlement at 11:00 pm.

The villagers could drive away the rampaging tuskers’ herd only at 3:00 am today.

The elephants went back to the nearby jungle only after fires were shot in the air.

Locals said the herd comprised some 22 adult and calf elephants.

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Wild elephant kills man in Nepal

A wild elephant crushed a man to death while he was foraging for mushrooms in a forest in south-eastern Nepal, local police said on Friday. The man in his 60s had ventured into the community-run forest near his home in a rural part of Jhapa district when the animal killed him, said Hari Prasad Sharma, a senior police officer.

The man, who was from an indigenous community and earned a living from the forest, was searching for mushrooms when he came under attack, according to Sharma. “Locals who reached the forest to collect fodder and firewood informed us about the incident,’’ he said.

Nepal has made progress in the conservation of endangered wild animals, it has 200 tigers, over 600 rhinos and over 150 wild elephants. But the rise in numbers has led to dangerous encounters between humans and wild animals, raising concerns about the safety of people living near forests in the country’s southern plains.

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Nepal develops new fencing to protect farms and elephants

An electric fence has been developed in Napal to stop elephants from raiding people’s crops and houses.

 However, it will allow other wildlife, people and cattle to pass through unhindered.

The Himalayan Tiger Foundation is working with the National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), WWF-Nepal and the authorities of Bardiya National Park will test a new approach for keeping elephants and people separated.

Together with scientists from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands they have developed an experimental electric fence.

It uses a single live wire, instead of multiple wires, at a height of 180 cm that allows people and cattle, but also deer, tigers, and rhinos to walk underneath it.

The idea is to stop the much taller elephants from going through but not other wildlife.

Hopefully it also prevents people from cutting fences because they can pass through unhindered.

It’s an excellent idea.

Whether it will work will largely depend on how well the scientists understand elephants and even more importantly how well they understand communities.

Fences only work where communities support and maintain them.

Getting this support is not easy.

Co-financing schemes appear necessary to create the required sense of ownership from communities.

Human-elephant encounters are costly to the community. A recent study showed that the total yearly elephant damage in the 5,000 ha project area is about US$ 35,000 – 50,000 in crop losses and damage to houses.

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Nepal, a strange boy was wild elephants attack killed the second month of this month

A 13-year-old boy was killed in a wild elephant attack in the Chitwan district of Nepal on Jan. 13, the second in a month Wild elephant attacks on human events.

According to the Chitwan police, the victim was named Sunar, and before he got out of the house, he went to the bathroom and was attacked by wild elephants, and the boy died on the spot.

On January 10, a 22-year-old Indian female visitor was attacked by a wild elephant and died in the end because of a serious injury, according to the report.

The National Park of Nepal, the first national park in Nepal, was established in 1973. In 1984, it was declared a World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO, with elephants, rhinos, tigers and crocodiles Wildlife, is a famous tourist attraction in Nepal.

In Nepal, where the tourism industry is the mainstay, wild elephant attacks on human affairs have cast a shadow over the development of its related industries: the Indian girls' attacks have sparked 'fear' in some tourist circles.In Nepal, The legal protection of endangered animals, people have been attacked wild elephants called on the local wildlife sanctuary to take measures to control the area of wild animals, to prevent them from going out to hurt.

Some experts pointed out that with the intensification of human activities here, and the nature of wild animals themselves change, improve the situation is not difficult than before low.

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Elephant attack around bardia national park, Killing 1, Injuring 2

A man died and two others were injured when a herd of elephants attacked Praseni village of Bardiya district on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Bimal Pariyar, a local, informed the Bardiya District Police Office. The injured were locals Ram Prasad Lamichhane and Dinesh Singh Thakuri.

The duo are currently receiving medical treatment for their injuries. According to police, the elephants from the Bardiya National Park attacked the village at 7 am today. Police personnel have been deployed to send the wild animals back to the forest, the DPO informed.

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Elephant terror continues in Kapilbastu villages

People in half a dozen villages in Kapilbastu district are terrorised by wild elephants. People of Gugauli, Shivagadhi, Ganeshpuri, Khuruhuriya and Bhagawapur Village Development Committees (VDCs) have been terrorized by elephants from the Gautam Buddha Leasehold Forest as the elephants trumpet near the village and trample on the crops in their fields. Chairperson of the Community Forest, Janaki Yadav said the elephants that come from the forest along with their calves have broken the barbed wire fencing around the forest and damaged goods and property worth hundreds of thousands of rupees. The locals stay awake the whole night lest the elephants enter the human settlements. It is suspected that the elephants might have come to the forest from the Banke National Park via forest corridor in India.

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Bardiya youth killed in tusker attack

BARDIYA: A youth was killed while trying to chase away a herd of wild elephants that entered a human settlement in Karmala of Babai Municipality-3 in Bardiya district of western Nepal, on Tuesday.

The villagers were trying to chase away the elephants when 18-year-old Bijaya Nepali aka Amrit was killed in an elephant attack, informed Bardiya National Park (BNP) Assistant Conservation Official Ashok Bhandari.

Nepali died on the spot.

The BNP had fenced the periphery of the forest areas with electric wire, but it has not been effective in saving the villagers from sporadic skirmishes with the wild animals.

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Elephant herd attacks Nepal village, killing 1, injuring 2

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A herd of elephants attacked a village in southwest Nepal on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding two others, officials said.

Government official Dilli Ram Acharya said the elephants attacked Praseni village at dawn, when there was not much light and poor visibility due to winter fog. Acharya said the villagers did not see the elephants coming and did not have a chance to run.

Security forces were sent to the area to chase the elephants back to the forest. The injured people were taken to a nearby town for treatment. Acharya says the village is close to Bardia National Park, home to many elephants, but it was rare for people to be killed by the animals. The park is protected by government soldiers and is home to endangered tigers, one-horned rhinos and many other animals.

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Nepal to host Asian rural tourism festival

The Asian Rural Tourism Festival 2017 will be held from March 3-6 at Bahundangi in Nepal. The festival has been an annual event since 2012 and is aimed at raising awareness of the people living along the Mechi River in eastern Nepal and north Bengal about wild elephants.

Speaking today at a press meet at the Siliguri Journalists' Club, Arjun Karki, president of the festival organising committee, said various awareness programmes will be launched besides promoting local cultures and tradition. There will be stalls on conservation of orange orchards, bee keeping and tea branding, which will help visitors pick up value added practices and know about living museums and local food products. The event will also witness cultural performances by the Rai, Tamang, Gurung, Dhimaal, Limboo and Newar communities.

Raj Basu, convener of the Association for Conservation of Tourism, the supporting organisation, said stakeholders from Bhutan and Bangladesh will also participate, to give complete focus on rural tourism connectivity and networking. Tour operators and travel agents from Nepal such as NATA, TAAN, PATA are expected to take part in the festival, he said.
Rabi Nepal, vice president of the festival organising committee, said Indian cultural troupes comprising dancers, singers and models for ethnic fashion display will also be participating. (EOIC)

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Two elephants destroy house and kill man in Nepal

A person has died after being attacked by two wild elephants in Saptari district on Saturday night.

The deceased has been identified as Raghunath Khanga, 60, of Bhardaha-9 of the district, according to Area Police Office (APO) of Bhardaha.

When Khanga and his family were fast asleep in the middle of the night, two wild suddenly elephants attacked his house. Everyone except Khanga managed to escape. He was chased down and trampled to death, informed the APO. According to locals, the elephants also destroyed sheds, and crops and vegetables cultivated in the farms of some locals.

Prior to this incident, Allahdin Khan, 55, of Bairawa-8 had also lost his life after being attacked by an wild elephant on November 3.

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