Wildlife

Man-animal Conflict

Wildlife depredation
The major cause of depredation in the State is attributed to higher population of elephants and inadequate and fragmented habitats.  Their food and water requirement being very high, elephants have to traverse extensively through fragmented forests often through human habitations and cultivations to fulfil their needs.  This invariably results in man-animal conflict. The Department carries out protection measures and promotes eco-friendly activities to reduce such conflict and ameliorate the suffering of people living in and around elephant habitat through various measures.

Anti-depredation measures include elephant scaring operation, setting up of voluntary protection squads, construction of physical barriers such as sausage barriers and provides ex-gratia relief to wildlife depredation victims. In addition to these measures, people are being encouraged to adopt such agricultural practices that will not attract wildlife constantly.

Details on Depredation cases:-

Year
Crop Damages
No. of human death
No. of human injury
Livestock killed
No. of cases
Area involved (in Ha)
2013
2019
853.53
5
3
17
2014
1921
596.08
8
4
1
2015
2559
1495.624
5
6
-
2016
1554
512.48
6
5
-
2017
1328
450.506
6
3
-

Ex-gratia paid under CSS and State Funds :-

Source of Fund
2014-15
2015-16
2016-17
2017-18
2018-19
CSS-Project Elephant
53,05,000
15,00,000
30,52,000
30,00,000
41,00,000
CSS-Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitat
2,00,000
5,50,000
10,00,000
10,00,000
9,00,000
Establishment Expenditure
15,00,000
12,56,000
12,61,600
11,85,000
14,95,000
CAMPA
-
2,20,00,000
-
-
15,00,000
Total
70,05,000
2,53,06,000
53,13,600
51,85,000
79,95,000