Nagaland
Nagaland government’s intervention sought to tackle elephant menace in Wokha
DIMAPUR — The jumbo menace continues in Wokha district as a herd of wild elephants reportedly entered the paddy fields in Nrung Longidang village on Tuesday night, and damaged the crops and property there.
This came just days after Mekokla villagers complained that wild elephants had destroyed several rice paddy fields in the village last weekend.
As elephants keep wreaking havoc in the district, the Tiyi Wildlife Conservation (TWC) and Animal-Human Conflict Control Society (A-HCCS) on Wednesday sought urgent “intervention of the state government to stop further damage and rescue the farmers, who are at the mercy of wild pachyderms, with effective deterrents and preventive measures”.
It also appealed to the district administration and the concerned department to constitute a team to mitigate the animal-human conflict in Wokha; “visit the conflict zone and depute Forest officials to assist the aggrieved villagers in handling the situations promptly and assess the loss first hand”.
Meanwhile, it was informed that a team of government officials led by Y Kikheto Sema, Commissioner and Secretary of the Environment, Forests and Climate Change department, would tour Wokha on September 19 and the 20th to assess and visit wild elephant habitat in Bhandari sub-division.