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Kumki Elephants for Odisha
January 27 , 2024
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- The Odisha government has sought four Kumki elephants along with their mahouts from Tamil Nadu given the southern state’s successful programme.
- In Odisha, there have been 230 encounters between humans and elephants in this financial year (2023-24).
- In these encounters, 139 humans have been killed and 108 injured.
- Last financial year, there were 257 encounters in which 146 persons were killed and 157 injured.
- As there are two more months left in the current financial year, the human casualties in elephant attacks could be an all-time high.
- Kumki elephants can be deployed strategically to help us to manage and drive wild elephants thereby reducing damage to crops, human habitations and the potential loss of both human and elephant lives.
- These elephants can also be deployed for forest patrolling and rescue operations.
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