Many villagers in Alur and Sakleshpur taluks get up in the morning worrying about the elephant herds that freely roam in their region. Unless they are all captured and relocated, we cannot grow coffee.” Planters here have been demanding a permanent solution to the problem. In 2014, the Forest Department captured 22 elephants and shifted them to camps. Vinod Krishnan of NCF said that apart from the Forest Department, many other government departments have many things to do to minimise man-elephant conflicts. The rates of compensation for coffee plants and paddy crop damaged is negligible.

Source: The Hindu June 09, 2020 17:49 UTC