Odisha’s Wooded field and Ambiance Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh advised the assert assembly on Monday that 406 elephants died in Odisha as a result of alternative causes in the finest five years.
As many as 406 elephants died in Odisha in the finest five years (File photo)
Odisha’s Wooded field and Ambiance Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh advised the assert assembly on Monday that 406 elephants died in Odisha as a result of alternative causes in the finest five years.
Arukh modified into replying on the bottom of the Apartment to a request raised by Congress MLA Suresh Routray correct via the ongoing Winter Session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
Whereas 14 jumbos had been killed after being hit by yelp correct via crossing, other accidents claimed the lives of as many as 162 elephants. Electrocution ended in the death of one other 54 elephants.
Severely, building exercise stretching in opposition to ‘elephant hall’ as a result of urbanisation is explanation for field and one amongst the major causes for human-elephant battle.
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Biswajit Mohanty, secretary, Wildlife Society of Odisha, advised India As of late TV, “The assert authorities has been consistently failing in elephant safety, that’s the reason the assert is identified as elephant graveyard of India.”
“Minister’s statement regarding elephants’ death doesn’t account for the overall image since we have recorded more elephant deaths correct via the identical interval,” Mohanty added.
Succor in September this twelve months, Arukh had advised that 17 tigers had died in Odisha in the finest three years.
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