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20 elephants raid crops in two villages
Staff Reporter
HOSUR: Twenty elephants strayed from the Denkanikottai forests into the fields of Thippachandiram and Naraleri villages on Wednesday night to raid crops.
Forest Department sources said efforts to chase the animals into the forests provide futile. In another instance, officials chased away 15 elephants that strayed into human habitations near Denkanikottai.
This being the harvest season, straying of wild elephants into farmlands has become regular.
Migratory elephants from the Bannerghatta national park in Karnataka are also chased into the Tamil Nadu forests, according to sources.
Forest Department blamed
In the past one-month, elephants have raided sugarcane, banana, pulse and maize crops in the Jawalagiri, Rayakottai, Neralatti, Agalakottai and Palithottanapalli in the Denkanikottai and Anchetti forest ranges.
Farmers said the Forest Department failed to chase the elephants back into the forests.
Mani, Conservator of Forests, Dharmapuri Circle, has deputed a team of officials to chase the elephants back into the forests.
The expansion of agricultural area near the forests has shrunk the migratory path of elephants, says an elephant researcher.
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