Five villagers, including an eleven-year-old boy have been killed by a rampaging Elephant. The incident happened on Wednesday 30 October 2019 in the village of Bolatar in Goalpara District, after a male Elephant thought to be in musth (a periodic condition in bull Elephants in which a rise in reproductive hormones leads to highly aggressive behaviour) entered the village. The Elephant is now being tracked by Forest Service officials using tame Elephants and a drone borrowed from the Kaziranga National Park, with a view to tranquilisisng the animal and relocating it to a more suitable area. The Elephant was spotted on 1 November in the Chatabari Forest Reserve.
An Elephant believed to have killed five villagers in Goalpara District, Assam, on 30 October 2019 spotted by a drone in the Chatabari Forest Reserve on 1 November. VCG.
The population of India has risen from 376 million in 1950 to 1339
million today, fuelling an expansion of both urban and agricultural land
use into former wilderness areas. Many
animals will simply flee such incursions, or, if unable to, are likely
to end up in the cooking pots of hungry villagers. Elephants, however,
are a somewhat different proposition. They are large animals, not used
to being challenged by other animals in their home ranges, and typically
live in matriarchal herds of up to a hundred, with herds holding large
territories, criss-crossed by Elephant trails. A herd of Elephants
encountering a new Human settlement, particularly a poorly defended structure, are unlikely to attempt to go round it, and
are quite likely to maximise the damage they cause to show their
displeasure. Assam State is very much at the front line of this conflict, with over 750 people and 250 Elephants killed in conflicts between the two species since 2010.
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