Lok Sabha Question No. 4488 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-20
Subject: Man-Animal Conflicts
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Kirit Premjibhai Solanki, Naba (Hira) Kumar Sarania

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 4488

TO BE ANSWERED ON 20.03.2020.

## Man-Animal Conflicts

## 4488.   DR. (PROF.) KIRIT PREMJIBHAI SOLANKI: SHRI NABA KUMAR SARANIA:

Will  the  Minister  of ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND  CLIMATE  CHANGE be  pleased  to state:

- (a) whether a number of animals including elephants have died due to man-animal conflicts in the country;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  of  animals  perished  and  persons  injured/killed  due  to  such  conflicts during the last three years, State/UT-wise including North-Eastern States;
- (c) the total number of incidents of such conflicts reported from various parts of the country during the said period; and
- (d) the steps taken to prevent man-animal conflicts in the country including North-East India, South and Western India?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI BABUL SUPRIYO )

- (a) (b) and (c) Yes,  Sir.  It  is  a  serious  issue.  Nearly  500  people  loose  their  lives  because  of human-animal  conflict  every  year.  Nearly  100  elephants  get  killed  every year.The details of death of the elephants due to train accident, electrocution, poaching and poisoning are given at Annexure-I,  II,  II and IV respectively. The details of death of tigers are given at Annexure-V and the details of people who lost their lives by elephants and tigers are given at Annexure-VI & VII respectively.
- (d) The major steps taken to prevent man-animal conflicts in the country including North-East India, South and Western India are as follows:
- i. Ministry through its Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) namely 'Project Tiger', 'Project Elephant' and 'Development of Wildlife Habitats (DWH)' provides funds to States and UTs for carrying various activities for habitat improvement works namely restoration of natural water bodies, creation of artificial  ponds,  waterholes,  augmenting  food/fodder  sources  at  various places within Protected Areas to minimize the human animal conflict.
- ii. A  network  of  Protected  Areas  namely  viz.,  National  Park,  Sanctuaries, Conservation  Reserves  and  Community  Reserves  covering  important wildlife habitat have been created all over the country under the provisions of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 to conserve wild animals and their habitats.
- iii. Construction/erecting of physical barriers, such as barbed wire fence, solar powered  electric  fence,  bio-fencing  using  cactus,  boundary  wall  etc.  to prevent the entry of wild animals into crop fields is allowed on a case to case basis.
- iv. The Ministry has approved a project for undertaking 'Immunocontraceptive  measures'  for  population  management  of  selected  wild animal species.
- v. The Ministry has issued guidelines in context of human-wildlife conflict to the Chief Wildlife Wardens of all the State Governments/Union Territory Administrations dated 24 th December, 2014 and 1 st June, 2015.
- vi. The National Tiger Conservation Authority has issued the following two Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to minimize conflict with humans:-
-  SOP  to  deal  with  'emergency  arising  due  to  straying  of  tigers  in human dominated landscapes'.
-  SOP to deal with 'tiger depredation on livestock'.
- vii. Periodic  awareness  campaigns  to  sensitize  guide  and  advise  the  general public  on  man-animal  conflict,  including  dissemination  of  information through various forms of media.

## Annexure-I

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a), (b) AND (c) OF LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION NO.  4488  REGARDING  'MANANIMAL  CONFLICTS'  BY DR.  (PROF.)  KIRIT  PREMJIBHAI  SOLANKI AND SHRI NABA KUMAR SARANIA ON 20.03.2020.

## Elephant Casualties By Train Accidents From 2016-17 To 2018-2019

| S. No.   | State         |   2016-17 |   2017-18 | 2018-19   |
|----------|---------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1        | Assam         |        10 |        10 | 2         |
| 2        | West Bengal   |         3 |         2 | 6         |
| 3        | Tamil Nadu    |         2 |         0 | 0         |
| 4        | Jharkhand     |         2 |         0 | 0         |
| 5        | Kerala        |         2 |         0 | 1         |
| 6        | Odisha        |         0 |         2 | 7         |
| 7        | Tripura       |         0 |         0 | NR        |
| 8        | Uttarakhand   |         2 |         5 | 1         |
| 9        | Uttar Pradesh |         0 |         0 | 0         |
| 10       | Karnataka     |         0 |         1 | 2         |
|          | Total         |        21 |        20 | 19        |

## Annexure-II

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a), (b) AND (c) OF LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION NO.  4488  REGARDING  'MANANIMAL  CONFLICTS'  BY DR.  (PROF.)  KIRIT  PREMJIBHAI  SOLANKI AND SHRI NABA KUMAR SARANIA ON 20.03.2020.

## Elephant Casualties by Electrocution from 2016-17 to 2018-19

| S. No.   | State             | 2016-17   | 2017-18   | 2018-19   |
|----------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    | 1         | 0 2       |           |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh | NR        | NR        | 0         |
| 3        | Assam             | 11        | 24        | 9         |
| 4        | Chhattisgarh      | 3         | 2         | 6         |
| 5        | Jharkhand         | 0         | 1         | 1         |
| 6        | Karnataka         | 6         | 10        | 9         |
| 7        | Kerala            | 5         | 4         | 6         |
| 8        | Maharashtra       | 0         | 0         | 0         |
| 9        | Meghalaya         | 1         | 3         | 0         |
| 10       | Nagaland          | 0         | 0         | 4         |
| 11       | Odisha            | 6         | 9         | 24        |
| 12       | Tamil Nadu        | 7         | 11        | 10        |
| 13       | Tripura           | 0         | 0         | NR        |
| 14       | Uttar Pradesh     | 3         | 0         | 3         |
| 15       | Uttarakhand       | 4         | 3         | 3         |
| 16       | West Bengal       | 9         | 2         | 4         |
|          | Total             | 56        | 69        | 81        |

## Annexure-III

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a), (b) AND (c) OF LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION NO.  4488  REGARDING  'MANANIMAL  CONFLICTS'  BY DR.  (PROF.)  KIRIT  PREMJIBHAI  SOLANKI AND SHRI NABA KUMAR SARANIA ON 20.03.2020.

## Elephant Deaths by Poaching from 2016-17 to 2018-19

|                   | State   | 2016-17   | 2017-18   | 2018-19   |
|-------------------|---------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| S.No              |         |           |           |           |
| Andhra Pradesh    | 0       | 0         | 0         |           |
| Arunachal Pradesh | NR      | NR        | 0         |           |
| Assam             | 2       | 4         | 0         | 3         |
| 4 Chhattisgarh    | 0       | 0         | 0         |           |
| Jharkhand         | 0       | 1         | 1         | 5         |
| Karnataka         | 4       | 0         | 0         | 6         |
| Kerala            | 2       | 0         | 0         | 7         |
| Maharashtra       | 0       | 0         | 0         | 8         |
| Meghalaya         | 1       | 0         | 1         | 9         |
| Nagaland          | 0       | 1         | 0         | 10        |
| Odisha            | 2       | 2         | 2         | 11        |
| Tamil Nadu        | 1       | 0         | 1         | 12        |
| 13 Tripura        | 0       | 0         | NR        |           |
| Uttar Pradesh     | 0       | 0         | 0         | 14        |
| Uttarakhand       | 0       | 0         | 1         | 15        |
| 16 West           | 1       | 0         | 0         | Bengal    |
| Total             | 13      | 8         | 6         |           |

## Annexure-IV

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a), (b) AND (c) OF LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION NO.  4488  REGARDING  'MANANIMAL  CONFLICTS'  BY DR.  (PROF.)  KIRIT  PREMJIBHAI  SOLANKI AND SHRI NABA KUMAR SARANIA ON 20.03.2020.

## Elephant Deaths by Poisoning from 2016-17 to 2018-19

| S. No.   | State             | 2016-17   | 2017-18   | 2018-19   |
|----------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    | 0         | 0         | 0         |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh | NR        | NR        | 0         |
| 3        | Assam             | 4         | 6         | 8         |
| 4        | Chhattisgarh      | 0         | 0         | 0         |
| 5        | Jharkhand         | 0         | 0         | 0         |
| 6        | Karnataka         | 0         | 1         | 0         |
| 7        | Kerala            | 0         | 0         | 1         |
| 8        | Maharashtra       | 0         | 0         | 0         |
| 9        | Meghalaya         | 0         | 0         | 0         |
| 10       | Nagaland          | 0         | 0         | 0         |
| 11       | Odisha            | 0         | 1         | 0         |
| 12       | Tamil Nadu        | 0         | 0         | 0         |
| 13       | Tripura           | 0         | 0         | NR        |
| 14       | Uttar Pradesh     | 0         | 0         | 0         |
| 15       | Uttarakhand       | 0         | 0         | NR        |
| 16       | West Bengal       | 0         | 0         | 0         |
| Total    |                   | 4         | 8         | 9         |

## Annexure-V

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a), (b) AND (c) OF LOK SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  4488  REGARDING  'MAN-ANIMAL CONFLICTS'  BY DR.  (PROF.)  KIRIT  PREMJIBHAI  SOLANKI  AND  SHRI NABA KUMAR SARANIA ON 20.03.2020.

## The number  of tigers has been eliminated during human-tiger negative interactions during the last 3 years:

|   S. No. |   Year | State                                      | Tiger Reserve/ Area                        |
|----------|--------|--------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
|        1 |   2017 | No tiger was eliminated in conflict events | No tiger was eliminated in conflict events |
|        2 |   2018 | Maharashtra                                | Pandharkawda                               |
|        3 |   2019 | No tiger was eliminated in conflict events | No tiger was eliminated in conflict events |

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a),  (b)  AND  (c)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4488 REGARDING 'MAN-ANIMAL CONFLICTS' BY DR. (PROF.)  KIRIT  PREMJIBHAI  SOLANKI  AND  SHRI  NABA  KUMAR  SARANIA  ON 20.03.2020.

## Number of Human Deaths caused by elephant from 2016-17 to 2018-19

| S. No.   | State             | 2016-17   | 2017-18   | 2018-19   |
|----------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    | 2         | 6         | 7         |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh | NR        | NR        | 0         |
| 3        | Assam             | 91        | 72        | 84        |
| 4        | Chhattisgarh      | 74        | 74        | 56        |
| 5        | Jharkhand 59      |           | 84        | 87        |
| 6        | Karnataka 49      |           | 22        | 12        |
| 7        | Kerala 33         |           | 15        | 27        |
| 8        | Maharashtra       | 0         | 0         | 1         |
| 9        | Meghalaya 5       |           | 7         | 3         |
| 10       | Nagaland 1        |           | 0         | 1         |
| 11       | Odisha            | 66        | 105       | 72        |
| 12       | Tamil Nadu        | 43        | 49        | 47        |
| 13       | Tripura           | 2         | 0         | NR        |
| 14       | Uttar Pradesh     | 3         | 1         | 0         |
| 15       | Uttarakhand       | 4         | 5         | 3         |
| 16       | West Bengal       | 84        | 66        | 52        |
| Total    |                   | 516       | 506       | 452       |

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a),  (b)  AND  (c)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4488 REGARDING 'MAN-ANIMAL CONFLICTS' BY DR. (PROF.)  KIRIT  PREMJIBHAI  SOLANKI  AND  SHRI  NABA  KUMAR  SARANIA  ON 20.03.2020.

## Number of Human Deaths Caused By Tiger During The Last 3 Years

| S. No.   | State             |   2017 |   2018 |   2019 |   Total |
|----------|-------------------|--------|--------|--------|---------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 3        | Assam             |      1 |      1 |      0 |       2 |
| 4        | Bihar             |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh      |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 6        | Jharkhand         |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 7        | Karnataka         |      0 |      1 |      4 |       5 |
| 8        | Kerala            |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 9        | Madhya Pradesh    |      5 |      2 |      1 |       8 |
| 10       | Maharashtra       |      7 |      2 |     26 |      35 |
| 11       | Mizoram           |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 12       | Odisha            |      0 |      2 |      0 |       2 |
| 13       | Rajasthan         |      0 |      2 |      5 |       7 |
| 14       | Tamil Nadu        |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 15       | Telangana         |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 16       | Uttar Pradesh     |     19 |      5 |      8 |      32 |
| 17       | Uttarakhand       |      0 |      1 |      3 |       4 |
| 18       | West Bengal       |     12 |     15 |      3 |      30 |
| Total    | Total             |     44 |     31 |     50 |     125 |