Chednga Oraon lived in Raikera village in the Gumla district of Jharkhand. He had just turned 55 years old in 2021. On November 9 the same year, he stepped out, telling his family that he was going to cut crops on his farm. But he never returned. Following a frantic search, his body parts and his cycle were found the next day, in the nearby Raikera forest. His 22-year-old son Sankar Oraon told Mongabay-India, that his father had stepped into the forest to pick material to tie the cut crop when he had a fatal encounter with an elephant.
This is not a stray incident in Jharkhand where several villages lie in close proximity to the forest areas. The human-elephant conflict has been rising here, leading to the loss of both human and elephant lives.
Parts of elephant corridors pass through the three neighbouring states of Jharkhand, Odisha and Chattisgarh. Wildlife Trust of India’s 2017 report titled “Right to Passage highlights the issue of rising conflict around elephant corridors.
According to the report, a total land area of 21,000 sq km covering these three adjacent states along with southern West Bengal, is where elephants primarily move about. There were 3,128 elephants recorded in this area, as per the 2017 Elephant Census. That...
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