Elephant Herd Chased Away From Plantation Fields

Occurred on November 5, 2024 / Bankura, West Bengal, India

Info from Licensor: "This is is captured by me, Rahul Chakraborty. Being the largest land Mammals, elephants have their own mandatory migration path which they follow regularly. Sometimes the paths have their own lateral deviations as well. Sometimes, villagers build their plantations on the elephant migration corridor. The clash becomes circumstantial when the anguished villagers try saving their potato and paddy fields from the herd, yet the elephants need to make a crossover. As a last resort, the 'Hulla Troops' are summoned. They use sharp wooden sticks with gunny bags on the end, which is lit with fire and thrown towards the elephants with all humanly strength to scare them away. The image also depicts the same story where hulls are being fired on the elephants, scaring them away from the plantation fields to their main corridors."