A family of a migrant worker had a narrow escape when wild elephants damaged their tin shack in the early hours of Tuesday. The incident took place at Kathir Naickenpalayam near Coimbatore where a female elephant, a sub-adult male and a calf entered residential areas. Wild elephants damaged a shack of migrant workers at Kathir Naickenpalayam near #Coimbatore in the …
Wild elephants have damaged one more house in Thadagam valley in Coimbatore district. Three elephants, including a calf, damaged the house of C. Nagarajan in Dhaliyur, Pannimadai village in the valley, early on Tuesday, December 19, 2023. With the annual migration season of elephants nearing its peak, the Coimbatore Forest Division is witnessing large-scale movement of the large herbivore. The …
Vegetables and food waste dumped on the side of the Sirumugai – Mettupalayam Road in Coimbatore district has worsened negative interactions between humans and wild elephants in the region. Residents from the locality claimed that there was an increase in the movement of wild elephants that come to the road to feed on vegetable and food waste. The Forest Department …
Three elephants died after being hit by a train near Madukkarai in Coimbatore district on Friday evening. According to officials from the Forest Department, the three female elephants – an adult, a sub-adult and a juvenile – were crossing the railway track near Navakkarai within the Madukkarai forest range around 9 p.m. on Friday. 12602 Chennai Mail, operated from Mangaluru …
