Electric fence on the Indo-Nepal border puts migrating elephants and humans at risk
2020-11-06 10:14
“Daily ke daily, daily ke daily (day-on-day, day-on-day).” That’s how Parvati Oraon of Hatiram Jote, a small village along the Mechi river on the India-Nepal border, recounts the damage caused to her paddy crops, by migratory elephants. The elephants, in north West Bengal, would earlier cross the Mechi river over to Nepal, along a regular […]
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