Farmer urges Forest Dept. to prevent wild elephants from raiding crops
A farmer in Thalavadi taluk has requested urgent intervention from the Forest Department to stop wild elephants from raiding his crops. He reports significant property damage and suggests that elephants are using a specific pathway near the Forest Range Office to access agricultural fields.
Why it matters
This highlights the ongoing human-wildlife conflict in rural India, where agricultural livelihoods are threatened by habitat encroachment and insufficient protective infrastructure.
A farmer has sought urgent intervention by the Forest Department to prevent repeated wild elephant incursions into agricultural fields at Jeerahalli village in Thalavadi taluk.
In an email to the District Forest Officer, Hasanur Division, farmer P. Iyappan claimed wild elephants entered his farm for the past 2-3 nights, damaging standing fig crops, breaking the farm gate twice and damaging boundary stone fencing.
He said farmers in the area had spent about ₹60,000 collectively to dig trenches and erect protective fencing. However, he alleged that elephants were entering the fields through a pathway near the Forest Range Office premises.
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