more-inBiplab Hazra’s photograph titled “Hell is Here,” shot in West Bengal’s Bankura district, won the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Award of the year on Wednesday. The conflictThe man-elephant conflict has been happening throughout the country. North Bengal, which has relatively vast forest patches, sustains about 600 elephants, but south Bengal, which now has about 140-150 elephants, “cannot sustain” such large population, ecologist and expert on elephants Professor Raman Sukumar, told The Hindu last year. In a separate interview, Karnataka’s state-appointed honorary wildlife warden Nirad Muthanna explains: “Elephants have very sensitive ears. It is a completely unfamiliar atmosphere for them.”Although there are many steps taken by the authorities and conservationists to deal with the man-elephant conflict, a feasible plan is yet to be derived.

Source: The Hindu November 08, 2017 09:22 UTC