Coffee planters want end to elephant menace
The Hindu
The coffee planters of Hassan have urged the State government to stop development projects in Malnad region that could intensify the man-elephant conflict further and take up concrete measures to end
The coffee planters of Hassan have urged the State government to stop development projects in Malnad region that could intensify the man-elephant conflict further and take up concrete measures to end the elephant menace.
Former chairman of Malenad Area Development Board Hemmige Mohan, former member of Coffee Board B.A. Jagannath, Hassan District Planters Association president T.C. Anantha Subbarao, and environmentalist H.A. Kishor Kumar addressed a press conference in Hassan on Friday.
Even after translocating 22 elephants in 2013, the number had gone beyond 60 in the recent years in parts of Alur and Sakaeshpur taluks. Farmers had been losing their crops and many have died in the elephant attacks. The projects implemented in the name of development in the Western Ghats had contributed to the elephant menace over the years. The government should stop such works in future, they said.
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