New scheme designed to avoid man-elephant conflict
In a bid to ease the man-elephant conflict, the Centre is planning a scheme of planting crops on elephant corridors, which elephants do not feed on. This was informed at a discussion on the problem on man-animal conflicts during the foundation day celebration of the Assam Academic Centre (AAC) at the Radha Kanta Handique Bhavan here yesterday. Senior Forest Officer and wild animal research scholar Ranjan Das said that human encroachment and shrinking habitat was resulting in increased conflict between humans and animals, the world over.