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Jhum responsible for elephant menace in Meghalaya: Forest Dept

2009-04-26 - Shillong, India.

Meghalaya Forest Department today blamed the depletion of forest cover for the increasing man-elephant conflict in the state. At least 15 people have been killed by marauding pachyderms in the state in the last five years.
" Despite efforts by the forest department, there has been no significant improvement in the constant depletion of forest cover due to the practice of Jhum cultivation in the Garo hills region of the state," Meghalaya Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF) V K Nau...


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A woman looks at her house that was razed by wild elephants.

Long wait after jumbo attack

2008-04-18 - Shillong, India.

It is a long wait for the families of victims of elephant attacks in Meghalaya. As if losing a loved one to an elephant attack is not enough, the families have to wait for years to get a meagre Rs 1 lakh from the government. Saleng Sangma, a Congress legislator from the elephant-infested Dalmagiri area of West Garo Hills, told the Assembly that it takes years to distribute compensation to the victims’ families though the state government claims that it takes only one year to complete the proce...


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Polls in the shadow of the gun, and jumbo

2008-03-03 - Shillong,, India. Rahul Karmakar, Hindustan Times

It's not just militants that voters in Meghalaya have to contend with. As many as 194 polling booths in the state have been labeled sensitive due to the threat from marauding elephants. Meghalaya goes to the polls on Monday. Overall, 829 of the 1,599 polling booths to be set up have been labeled either hypersensitive or sensitive. Last month, state chief electoral officer P. Naik asked the forest department for guards to keep vigil around booths in West Garo Hills, South Garo Hills and Ri-Bhoi d...


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Poll booths face threat from elephants in Meghalaya

2008-01-30 - Shillong, India.

Election officials in Meghalaya face an elephantine problem to ensure that voting for March three polls is not disrupted by marauding pachyderms. Playing safe, election authorities are marking several booths as "sensitive" not from a communal angle or law and order factor but being vulnerable to possible attacks from elephants in the light of previous experience. Officials on wednesday said a scenario like a herd of drunk wild elephants moving dangerously near an election booth, chasing away ele...


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Elephants kill boy, mother

2008-01-03 - Shillong, India.

A herd of wild Asiatic elephants trampled to death a woman and her son in a village in West Garo Hills on Wednesday night, a wildlife official said today. The elephants entered Darugre village in West Garo Hills on Wednesday night and destroyed crops and several houses. The victims, Aprillish D. Sangma, 50, and her 13-year-old son Jakrik died after the elephants destroyed their house, the official said.


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4 Headlines about Elephants from Shillong2009-04-26 - Shillong, India - Jhum responsible for elephant menace in Meghalaya: Forest Dept 2008-04-18 - Shillong, India - Long wait after jumbo attack 2008-01-30 - Shillong, India - Poll booths face threat from elephants in Meghalaya 2008-01-03 - Shillong, India - Elephants kill boy, mother

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