Spike in wild elephants raiding farms
The Hindu
Feasting on crops, they leave a trail of destruction at Edappalayam in Aryankavu panchayat
Edappalayam, a forest-flanked hamlet in Aryankavu panchayat, has been seeing a sudden spike in the number of rogue elephants. They stray into the farms, households and even the nearby highway feasting on crops and leaving a trail of destruction.
The menace intensified nearly four months back with jumbos making daily visits and it's no isolated incident. With human-wildlife conflict increasing manifold, both conservation measures and livelihoods remain affected in many forest-fringes of late.

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