According to india's Indo-Asia News Agency, officials in the Indian state of Assam said that a lactating elephant died of electrocution in the Goragat region on the 24th, which was the second lactating elephant in Assam in 10 days to die unnaturally.
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Officials from the Assam Ministry of Forests and Environment said the 18-year-old female mammal died of electrocution in the early morning of the 24th in Doragunpatar, Goraga District, eastern Assam. Traces left by electric shock burning are very obvious in places such as wild ivory. Rangers found an 11 kV tilted utility pole near the body. On October 15, a 6-year-old elephant was found dead in a rice field in rural Assam.
This year, at least 13 elephants across Assam were electrocuted by illegal electric fences erected by farmers to protect their crops. According to official records, more than 90 elephants were electrocuted in Assam between 2011 and 2019. According to a 2017 census by the Indian Forestry Department, Assam has 5,719 elephants, making it the second largest population habitat for Asian elephants. Elephant-human conflicts are intensifying as a result of human deforestation and the destruction of elephant habitats. According to statistics, in the past 10 years, 890 people in Assam have died in clashes between humans and elephants, and more than 100 people in Assam have died in elephant attacks this year. (Reporter Wang Jianbing)
Source: CCTV news client
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