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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 49 elephants killed in Railway accidents between 2016-18: MoEFCC -Shiv Sahay Singh

49 elephants killed in Railway accidents between 2016-18: MoEFCC -Shiv Sahay Singh

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published Published on Jan 14, 2019   modified Modified on Jan 14, 2019
-The Hindu

In addition, 11 tigers and 13 lions died in railway and road accidents in the past three years

Kolkata:
In 2016, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC) released ‘Eco-friendly measures to mitigate impacts of linear infrastructure’, an advisory document for mitigating human-animal conflicts. Despite this advisory, and many others issued by conservationists and organisations, deaths of wild animals in road and railway accidents have continued unabated.

The MoEFCC told the Rajya Sabha, in response to a question by MP T. Subbarami Reddy, that 49 elephants were killed in Railway accidents between 2016-18 (nine in 2015-16, 21 casualties in 2016-17 and 19 in 2017-18). In the same 3-year period, three tigers were killed in road accidents while eight tigers were mowed down by trains.

Three lions died in a train accident in the Amerli district of Gujarat in December 2018. Prior to this, 10 lions died in railway and road accidents between 2016-2018.

West Bengal and Assam together accounted for 37 out of the 49 deaths of elephants on train tracks across the country. While the number of elephant casualties on railway tracks in West Bengal has fallen from five in 2015-16 to three in 2016-17 to two in 2017-18, the number of elephants dying in railway accidents in Assam have increased in the same period — the northeastern State recorded three elephant deaths by accidents in 2015-16, which increased ten in 2016-17 and 14 in 2017-18.

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The Hindu, 13 January, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/moefcc-provides-numbers-on-wildlife-killed-in-accidents/article25986499.ece?homepage=true


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