Human-elephant conflict kills over 1,100 wild elephants in 3 years

 

The Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation says that human-elephant conflicts have increased within the past three years. 

The Ministry Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation said that there is human-elephant conflict in 131 divisional secretarial areas of 19 districts of the island and as one step to end this problem, it was decided to erect and complete within next year the electricity fence in all the districts that need it.