Electric fence on the Indo-Nepal border puts migrating elephants and humans at risk

2020-11-06 - Naxalbari, India. AVIJAN SAHA, SAHANA GHOSH

Elephants in north West Bengal, would earlier cross the Mechi river along the Indo-Nepal border, over to Nepal, along a regular route identified as the Mahananda-Kolabari elephant corridor.
In 2016, a solar-powered fence erected by Nepal abruptly cut off the herds’ transboundary movement along this route.
This northern part of West Bengal has 488 elephants spread over 1933 square km, as reported by the 2017 elephant population estimation. In 2012, the north Bengal population was ...

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Tusker goes berserk, kills one at Naxalbari

2007-07-13 - Naxalbari, India.

Fifty-three-year-old Kharananda Jaishi was killed by a berserk elephant in Naxalbari, in Darjeeling district this morning. The tusker attack came close on the heels of an elephant being shot dead in the Indo-Nepal border area on Tuesday after a herd strayed across the border. In 2002, a female elephant went on a rampage, killing 13 people in a row after she lost her calf. Similar accidents have been reported in the past. Herds of elephants, after being forced to retreat, had gone on a rampage in...

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