UDHAGAMANDALAM: The forest department is installing early warning systems in Gudalur division of forests to detect the movement of wild elephants and curb man-elephant conflicts, which have claimed 25 lives in the past three years in the division.
Four people were killed in elephant attacks in Gudalur division of forests so far this year. As per the data available with the forest department, wild elephants had claimed eight lives in 2018, six in 2019 and seven in 2010 in the division. The victims were mostly tea estate workers or the people living in villages along the forest fringes or migratory paths of wild elephants. Most of the conflicts, as per the data, occurred either in the early morning hours or late in the evenings.
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Udhagamandalam: The wounded tusker, which was captured in Gudalur forest division in the Nilgiris on June 16 and shifted to a kraal at Abhiyaranyam in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) the following day, died on Friday evening without responding to treatment.
It was the first wild elephant to be captured in the state without darting a tranquilizer.
According to C H Padma, deputy director, MTR-core area, the tusker with deep injury in the hind region was being treated in the kraal at the temporary elephant camp at Abhayaranyan. “The animal’s condition became critical on Friday morning with high temperature and increased swelling on both the hind limbs.”