Saturday, December 15, 2018

Elephant gets stuck in railway fencing while fleeing villagers in Karnataka, chokes to death


A wild elephant was killed near Karnataka’s Nagarhole National Park on Saturday as it was trying to flee chasing villagers, adding to the spiralling count of deaths caused by human-animal conflicts.

The tusker, which raided farms in Bharthawadi village in the early hours, was running back into the nearby Veeranahosahalli forest when it got trapped by the railway fencing erected by the Karnataka forest department.

As it tried to heave itself over the fence, it reportedly collapsed under its own weight and its diaphragm got crushed, after which it was unable to breathe and choked to death.

Since 2013, the Karnataka forest department has been setting up railway fencing in national parks in the state as a conflict-mitigation measure. In the first phase of the project, it erected 33 kms of fencing. A further 220 kms of fencing, to be completed with a budget of Rs 220 crores, has been sanctioned.

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