Wokha, December 3 (MExN): Green Succession of Nagaland State (Green-SONS), a voluntary conservation group on Saturday raised concerns over the exponential increase in human-elephant conflicts in Wokha district of Nagaland, seeking intervention of the Wildlife Wing of Forest Department.
Among others, it urged the Department to reinstate the volunteer forest guards in all the villages that are in conflict with the elephants at the earliest so that pre-information about the movement of elephants can be shared with the villagers and precautionary measures can be taken to avert untoward incidences.
In a press release issued by its founder and chairperson Jess T Murry, the organisation stated that several ill-fated incidents of men being killed by wild elephants have occurred over the last decades despite efforts made by the Forest Department's Wildlife Wing, NGOs and villagers alike.
Apart from the loss of lives, rampaging of farms and cultivated fields are also regular occurrences, it said. According to the release, on November 22 too, a large portion of a six-acre areca (betel nut) and banana farm belonging to Peter Mozhui, Secretary to Green-SONS, at Yiparasa village was completely destroyed.
In this connection, the Organisation requested the Wildlife Wing of Forest Department, to investigate the matter and take necessary steps to help ease such incidences in the future.
