Assam’s fragmented elephant habitats escalating conflict: Study
Rapid habitat fragmentation, expanding settlements and disrupted elephant movement routes are increasingly pushing elephants into villages and farmlands, intensifying conflict in several districts Creating buffer zones with crops elephants avoid such as chilli, ginger, garlic and citrus, restoring fragmented forest corridors, and introducing real-time elephant alert systems could significantly reduce deadly encounters between humans and elephants in Assam, says a…
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