Coffee growers find novel ways to protect their estates from herd raids Kushalnagar: Jackfruit is elephants’ favourite fruit and they can smell the ripe ones from miles away. Elephants are dead clever and determined. If the fruit is too high for them to reach they’ll shake the tree with their trunk until the fruit falls…
Wild elephants destroy banana, coconut plantations in Hunsur
January 22, 2021Hunsur: Wild elephants, which have been creating menace in Hunsur taluk, have continued the havoc in and around Gurupura in the taluk. On Tuesday night, wild elephants, which ventured out of Nagarahole Forest, entered a banana plantation belonging to Jayamma and Mahadeva Shetty at Majigurupura village in Hanagod hobli, destroyed the plantation besides destroying coconut…
Elephant herd destroys banana plantation at H.D. Kote
September 21, 2020H.D. Kote: A herd of wild elephants, which raided a banana plantation, has destroyed the plantation at Kallahatti (G.M. Halli) in H.D. Kote. The plantation belonged to farmers Santosh and Nijaguna. The elephants have also destroyed ginger crops causing losses to the farmers.
Illegal electric fence kills two wild elephants in border village
February 29, 2020Chamarajanagar: Two wild elephants were electrocuted in a sugarcane field at Karalavadi village near Talavadi in Chamarajanagar yesterday. According to Forest Department officials, the two elephants came in contact with live wires at an illegal electric fence around a sugarcane field at Talavadi, a village located at Karnataka and Tamil Nadu border. The place comes…
Man walks with earphones; jumbo throws him to death like a toy
July 11, 2019Another person seriously injured Hanur: Close on the heels of a devotee being killed when a wild elephant caught him by its trunk and threw him aside in M.M. Hills Forest Range yesterday, a devotee from Mandya, who had been to Nagamale in M.M. Hills was seriously injured when a wild elephant attacked him near…
Wild elephants have killed 28 persons in Kodagu in 3 years
February 27, 2018Bengaluru: Human-wildlife conflict across Karnataka has killed 149 people in the past three years — accounting for almost one death every week. Most lives were lost in Virajpet (16 deaths) and Madikeri (12), both in Kodagu district. The data was collated by the Forest Department from its 36 forest/ wildlife divisions between 2014-15 and 2016-17,…
Wild elephants head back to forests in Madikeri
December 30, 2017Madikeri: The two elephants that had entered the main roads of Madikeri early yesterday morning have returned to the forests last night. Forest Department officials did not spot the pachyderms since last evening and they walked up to eight kilometres into the forests in their attempt to chase the elephants away. Tension prevailed in Madikeri…
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