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Human injury and death caused by wild elephants are most severe manifestations and very crucial aspects of human-elephant conflict. In the present study survey has been carried out in the fringe villages around Bandipur National Park, Karnataka, in the year 2013 (Jan-May) to study human injury and death. Available forest department records on human fatalities from 2001 to 2012 have been incorporated during analysis. The present investigation revealed, twenty seven human death and twenty one injuries, of the 48 victims, 38 were males and 10 were females. Male victims, were aged between 21-70 years, females were between 25 ­- 60 years old. Casualties by elephants for men was higher than female, about 79% of these incidents were caused by bulls. Distance traveled by the elephant and number of conflict incidents found to be negatively correlated. People have been killed or injured by elephants include farmers (53%), grazers (18%), dwellers (11%), laboures (16%), etc., 54% incidents had occurred in and around the farmlands and more number of incidents usually have been reported at night.  Totally over rupees 37 lakhs has been paid as compensation for these deaths and injuries that have occurred in between 2001 and 2012.  Forest department has to initiate steps to avoid reoccurrence of such incidents in the future.

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Lingaraju , H. G. . ., & Venkataramana, G. V. . (2014). Human casualties due to man-elephant conflict in and around Bandipur National Park, Karnataka, India: A case study. Environment Conservation Journal, 15(3), 175–182. https://doi.org/10.36953/ECJ.2014.15328
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