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Wildlife: Jumbo crisis [1]

An eleven-member herd of wild elephants has triggered a row between two state governments, trapped forest officials into taking desperate measures which killed two members of the herd and brought the man-elephant conflict into sharp focus. It all started when an all-female herd of elephants crossed into Andhra Pradesh from neighbouring Orissa in July this year.

Publication Date: 
19/11/2007
Amarnath K. Menon [2]
India Today (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Elephant [4], Poaching [5], Andhra Pradesh [6], Orissa (Odisha) [7]
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[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/orissa