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Agriculture & Food ProductionTezpur, Assam, India· Source · Oct 2026

Villagers in Assam's Sonitpur, Biswanath and Udalguri districts get no warning when elephant herds are heading towards their fields and homes.

Villagers and farmers in Assam's high-conflict elephant districts

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  1. Found1 sourcethehindu.com
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Who it hurts
Farming families and tea garden workers living between forests, tea plantations and paddy fields on the north bank of the Brahmaputra.
The moment
Night during the paddy season, when a herd leaves the forest and crosses a tea garden towards the village.
What people do today
Villagers rely on watch towers, word of mouth and forest staff who arrive after a herd is already in the fields.
Why it's unsolved
Tracking data exists for only a few collared herds and is held by researchers and the Forest Department, so it does not reach the people in a herd's path in time.
What solved looks like
A village alert service, built with the Forest Department, that uses collar data, sightings from forest staff and reports from villagers to send a short warning by SMS or voice call in Assamese when a herd is moving towards a village, with seasonal maps of the usual paths.

Evidence

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The Hindu: GPS study on elephant movements aims to mitigate conflicts in Assam (Oct 2026) ↗
  1. 1Human-elephant conflicts claimed 1,147 human lives and 246 elephants in Assam since 2016, the Forest Minister told the Assembly in July.
  2. 2Officials and ecologists tracked four female-led herds and a solitary male elephant in the high-conflict districts of Udalguri, Sonitpur and Biswanath between April 2021 and June 2026.
  3. 3The study generated more than 38,000 GPS locations on seasonal elephant movements across multi-use landscapes.
  4. 4Tea plantations served as significant movement pathways and secondary habitats, often bringing elephants close to people.
  5. 5Home ranges of female-led herds expanded during the paddy cropping season, a period also associated with high levels of human-elephant conflict.

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  1. [1]The Hindu: GPS study on elephant movements aims to mitigate conflicts in Assam (Oct 2026)
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Human-elephant conflicts claimed 1,147 human lives and 246 elephants in Assam since 2016, the Forest Minister told the Assembly in July. Officials and ecologists tracked four female-led herds and a solitary male elephant in the high-conflict districts of Udalguri, Sonitpur and Biswanath between April 2021 and June 2026. The study generated more than 38,000 GPS locations on seasonal elephant movements across multi-use landscapes. Tea plantations served as significant movement pathways and secondary habitats, often bringing elephants close to people. Home ranges of female-led herds expanded during the paddy cropping season, a period also associated with high levels of human-elephant conflict.

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