A wild elephant, locally known as ‘katta komban’, at Chappanthodu near Cherambadi on Friday.
Research paper blames it on conversion of vast tracts of forest lands to plantations, farms, building sites
The forest cover along crucial elephant corridors in Gudalur has decreased by around 13 per cent in the last four decades, and could be driving problematic human-elephant interactions in the region, a research paper suggests.
The research into land-use change in the Gudalur landscape, a crucial corridor for elephants moving between the Mudumalai and Bandipur Tiger Reserves to Nilambur, was conducted by S. Karthick, a Ph.d student from the Department of Zoology and Wildlife Biology in the Government Arts College in Udhagamandalam, with the use of comparative satellite imagery.