Umar Imam, Arnab Saha and Shwetadri Bhandari

Bankura, a district in the state of West Bengal, India, is home to a significant population of Asian elephants (Chakraborty & Mondal, 2013). Each year, more than 100 elephants move through our study area. However, the incidents of elephant electrocution pose a severe threat to the conservation efforts in the region. Electrocution of elephants is a critical issue faced by the concern forest department and the conservationist’s worldwide (Palei et al., 2014). Despite elephants' remarkable adaptability and intelligence, encounters with electrical infrastructure often led to fatal consequences. This research paper analyzed all the electrocution cases inside the study area from the past 10 year’s data. After analyzing all the data of the past 10 years, we came to these four conclusions, (a) Human Elephant Conflict and Elephant Electrocution are in direct proportion to each other; (b) Elephant Age and Elephant Electrocution are in inverse proportion to one another; (c) Faced with the prospect of crop loss, human mentality towards elephants might become negative; (d) Role of female elephants in a herd is much more important in decision making, especially in the choice of route and search for food, than male elephants.

DOI: 10.22271/23940522.2024.v11.i5a.1048

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