HUMAN ELEPHANT CONFLICTS: A STUDY IN GOLAGHAT DISTRICT OF ASSAM:

Abstract

The survival of Elephant is very important for healthy ecosystem. Elephant is an 
endangered species which has been listed in schedule I of the Indian Wild Life (Protection) Act, 
1972. Assam is the key conservation region of Asian Elephant (Chaudhury, 1999). There are 
about 5200 Elephants as assessed in the year 2005. According to the record of Forest Dept. of 
Assam Government,  Golaghat district of Assam is the home of about 500 Elephants. In the 
Golaghat district and adjacent Karbi-Anglong district there are seven reserve forests viz. Diphu 
Rengma, Doyang, Nambor North, Nambor South, Upper Doigurung and Lower Doigurung. 
These reserve forest have a good link with the Kaziranga National Park. These reserve are the 
main habitation of elephant in Golaghat district. Numbor Reserve Forest is the oldest elephant 
habitat. Gradually the forests are destroying in Golaghat district and the number of elephants are 
declining. The forest reserves in Golaghat district which are known as home of elephant are 
destroying in an alarming rate and due to shortage of habitation the elephant come out from 
forest in search of their food and water. As a result conflict between Human and Elephant take 
place and day by day elephants are in intense conflict with human .In this paper an attempt is 
made to analyze the causes of Human Elephant conflicts and try to find out some suggestions for 
reduction of human elephant conflicts in Golaghat district of Assam. 

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