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The spate of tiger deaths owing to poisoning reported from M.M. Hills Wildlife Sanctuary during the year, elephant deaths from electrocution and different unnatural causes, and predominant harvest raiding by animals underscore the severity of human-animal struggle successful villages abutting wood boundaries, successful South Karnataka region.
Urgent intervention
As the State observes Wildlife Week successful the archetypal week of October, it draws attraction to burning issues that telephone for urgent involution to mitigate the interaction of struggle situation.
The existent challenge, according to activists, is to enactment successful spot measures to minimise, if not avert, some quality and carnal deaths, and spot nonaccomplishment which affects section villagers bearing the brunt of the conflict.
As per the Forest Department’s e-Parihara dashboard (April 2024 – October 2025) determination person been 35,580 reported cases of harvest raiding and different struggle cases, and the contented has grown from being a localised occupation to a wide situation affecting livelihoods, ecosystems, and conservation goals, posing a situation to the section arsenic besides the section assemblage members.
Paid and pending
According to the data, 20,417 cases person been approved for compensation portion 14,245 are pending, indicating the strain connected administrative mechanisms to respond promptly.
The wood ranges that are among the worst-affected are successful southbound Karnataka portion and see the Virajpet range, Kushalnagar, Srimangala, Omkar, Veeranahosahalli, Ponnampet, Sakleshpura, Hediyala, Methikuppe, Anechowkur, N. Begur, Nuguhd Kote, Gundlupet, Hanur range,m etc., each of which are successful Mysuru-Kodagu-Hassan-Chamarajanagar belt.
The estimated ex gratia magnitude which has been approved for the play April 2024 to October 2025 is ₹22.82 crore, of which ₹21.61 crore has been disbursed, reflecting the government’s continued fiscal load successful mitigating losses arising from harvest damage, livestock kills, and quality casualties.
Elephant highest
The information indicates that elephants proceed to beryllium the superior taxon progressive successful struggle situation, accounting for 22,483 incidents, followed by leopards (9,378), chaotic boars, and tigers.
Though the section has taken up installation of obstruction barricades to trim human-elephant struggle successful southbound Karnataka region, determination are gaps which cannot beryllium plugged fixed the topography and the terrain, and elephants negociate to navigate their mode to circumvent the barricades. But officials support that successful areas wherever the barricading has been completed, determination is simply a diminution successful struggle with elephants.
Habitat fragmentation
The escalation of struggle has been attributed to situation fragmentation, encroachment, and disturbance by mode of approving linear task done the forests oregon adjacent to the areas utilized by animals for their seasonal migration.
Unless specified issues are resolved, the semipermanent consequences of unchecked struggle would beryllium terrible arsenic determination would beryllium resentment among affected communities who could edifice to revenge killing. And the caller poisoning of six tigers successful M.M. Hills is simply a pointer to specified a situation.
