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Man-made disaster: Elephant dies after getting stuck in rail fence in Kanrataka's Nagarhole National Park

A 42-year-old male elephant died while trying to cross over the railway fence in Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka. The tusker had entered human habitation and raided the crop fields last night. The elphant was making its way back to Veerahosahalli range of the national park got stuck over the railway fence. 

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A 42-year-old male elephant died while trying to cross over the railway fence in Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka. The tusker had entered human habitation and raided the crop fields last night. The elphant was making its way back to Veerahosahalli range of the national park got stuck over the railway fence. 

Going by the images, it is evident that the Tusker made heavy efforts to extricate itself but left dangling in midair. 

The fence was erected as a barrier along parts of the park to prevent elephants from crossing over to human landscape. 

 

As quoted by The Hindu, the Conservator of Forests and Director of Nagarahole National Park Mr.K.M.Narayanaswamy said that examination of the site indicated that the elephant tried to heave itself out of the situation but its diaphragm was crushed by its own weight and died around 5 a.m.

The Forest Department envisaged erecting the railway fence as barrier for a length of 33 km — in the first stage — along different stretches of the national park bordering human landscape as a solution to mitigate man-animal conflict.

In November this year, a tusker aged around 35 to 40 years was found gored to death by another wild elephant in the same range, in Nagarhole National Park. 

Surprisingly, not a single criticism has come for the fencing project which was approved by the Karnataka Goverment in 2015 with budgetary allocation of nearly ₹212. The project is still under process. 

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