जंगली हाथी आखिर क्यों शहर और गांव की ओर कर रहे रुख, समझें हाथियों का व्यवहार परिवर्तन!

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जंगली हाथी वन छोड़कर शहरों और गांवों में प्रवेश कर रहे हैं. ऐसा क्यों है, इसके पीछे एक नयी शोध सामने आई है.

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00:00The struggle between elephants and humans has been going on for many years.

00:05But in Jharkhand, for the past 20 years, elephants have been entering the rural areas.

00:11Even in the city, you can see the elephants.

00:14After all, what is the reason that elephants are coming to such areas where the population is high?

00:19That is, why are they heading towards villages and cities?

00:23This has become the biggest question in today's time.

00:26On the one hand, the forest department is doing research.

00:29On the other hand, the common people are also scared.

00:32After all, why has the behavior of elephants changed?

00:36ETV Bharat is going to show you a special report today,

00:39through which you can understand why the elephants are heading towards the city.

00:44The struggle between elephants and humans is quite old.

00:47In the surrounding areas including Hazaribagh, the terror of elephants has increased in the last decade.

00:53Elephants are leaving the jungle and entering the village.

00:56Not only this, a few days ago, the terror of elephants spread throughout the area in the city.

01:02The district administration and the forest department together sent the elephants towards the jungle.

01:07Not only in the rural areas of Hazaribagh, but also in the urban areas, elephants are being threatened.

01:13After all, what is the reason for this?

01:15A lot of research is going on with this.

01:18From the forest department to the elephant researchers are also studying its nature.

01:23The problem of elephants in Hazaribagh district has increased.

01:29Not only in Hazaribagh district, but I think in the entire Central India landscape,

01:33we are seeing that there has been a spike in the human-elephant conflict.

01:40And there are many reasons for this.

01:43We have made an assessment regarding the Hazaribagh and its surrounding landscape.

01:51We have also made a report on how the conflict can be reduced.

01:57The elephant researchers say that if we look at the nature and events of elephants,

02:03we can see that in the last decade, where the population is high, elephants are moving towards it.

02:10If we talk about Hazaribagh and its surroundings, then there are years of jungles here.

02:14Elephants do not like this food.

02:16Elephants are lovers of bargat, peepal and ikh.

02:19If they do not get food according to their taste in the jungle, they enter the village.

02:23Villagers keep mahua in their homes in the village.

02:26Mahua is the favorite food of elephants.

02:28Elephants target the house where the mahua is.

02:33There has been a change in the behavior of elephants.

02:35And it is understood that their food is in the village.

02:38The reason is that the house is being targeted more by the school.

02:41Whoever comes in the way of food, they kill him.

02:45They do not get food in their jungle.

02:47The reason is that it is a year-dominated forest.

02:50They do not have food for a year.

02:51They need grass and bamboo.

02:53They do not get bargat, peepal and ikh.

03:00So they have made it an easy target for the crop.

03:03And by targeting the crop, the farmers are not as angry.

03:08Now the elephants are targeting the mahua, paddy and rice kept at home.

03:16There has been a change in this behavior.

03:18You can say that the elephants are moving towards freedom.

03:21They used to eat the crops in the ground or in the jungle.

03:26If not in the jungle, they used to come to the crops.

03:28But now they are targeting the houses.

03:30The rice kept in the mud mill is scanned from the outside.

03:36It is scanned from the soil.

03:39And it is broken where the rice is kept.

03:42And the rice is taken out.

03:43The house is broken in the same place where the paddy, rice and mahua are kept.

03:49In the last few days, in the rural areas of Hazaribagh,

03:52people were told to stay away from elephants as much as possible.

03:58If the elephant suddenly arrives, do not try to chase it away.

04:02If the elephant is wearing red and white clothes,

04:05then the elephant is sensitive to red and white colors.

04:07So stay away from wearing this color.

04:10The DFO of Hazaribagh also says that

04:12elephants are not only coming to Hazaribagh,

04:14but are also coming to the middle of India,

04:16leaving the jungles and coming to the rural areas.

04:19The study is going on on how to protect yourself from elephants.

04:22Some reports have been made and sent.

04:25The situation has worsened today

04:27due to the lack of shelter for elephants and their favorite food.

04:31They also say that an app has been made

04:33which will keep an eye on the movement of elephants

04:36so that the forest department and villagers can get information.

04:39The things that are coming up in our study,

04:41the fragmentation of habitat is a major reason.

04:46In addition, the behavior of elephants is also changing

04:51because of various reasons,

04:53mainly due to people coming near the elephants,

05:01storing food in houses,

05:04and not having proper information about the behavior of elephants.

05:08There are many reasons.

05:10In the last two decades,

05:12we have seen cases of conflict in the district of Hazaribagh.

05:20It is unfortunate that many of our people have lost their lives.

05:28We are worried about this and are working on it.

05:34We have started working on it in a planned manner.

05:38We are working on a long-term and short-term plan.

05:42We are also doing predictive modeling

05:46where we can use AI-based applications

05:49to predict the arrival of elephants.

05:53If an elephant is in a landscape,

05:55where it is likely to go.

05:57The behavior of elephants is becoming a challenge

06:01not only for the forest department but also for the general public.

06:05However, awareness is the only solution.

06:08When an elephant enters a rural area,

06:11it should be kept away from it.

06:13Only then can life be safe.

06:15Gaurav Prakash, ETV Bharat, Hazaribagh.

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