The Western Ghats are internationally recognized as a region of immense ... largest population of globally threatened ‘landscape’ species such as the Asian Elephant, Gaur and Tiger. Endangered species ...

For the last four decades, parts of Sakaleshpur, Alur, Belur and Arakalgud taluks, which lie in the foothills of the Western Ghats, have been facing human-elephant conflict. The local people ...