Give them space

We cannot mitigate elephant-human conflicts without addressing their shrinking habitats.

On Monday, 28-year-old Pramod Yadav was killed by an adult male elephant while working on his wheat field in Koshi Rural Municipality. The tragedy is the latest incident of human-animal wildlife conflict in the buffer zones of Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, where 24 people have lost their lives, and some 250 people have been injured in the past four years in separate incidents involving wild elephants in Sunsari, Saptari and Udayapur districts.