Once plagued by elephant raids, Assam village now grows grass & fruits for wild herds

This is the real story of Hatikhuli-Ronghang, a village that did not defeat elephants, but became the one that learned how to live with them, peacefully and in harmony. For villagers living along the Nagaon–Karbi Anglong border, wild elephant herds could ruin their hard work in a few hours. Elephants would raid their paddy fields and crops were trampled. Villagers won’t sleep thinking about what the next night might bring. It was not a simple conflict between people and wildlife; it was also one of the prominent symptoms of shrinking habitat along an old elephant movement route.But what villagers did is not only commendable, it’s also a successful living example that wildlife and humans can coexist.Let’s dig in more and find out the interesting story of Haithkhuli:The tale of coexistenceHatikhuli-Ronghang tells a very different story.