Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleA wild elephant known as Dhurbe has killed 25 people in Nepal since 2010, underscoring the country's escalating human-animal conflict. Dhurbe recently killed Shanichara Bote’s 25-year-old daughter-in-law and his four-year-old grandson, 14 years after killing his parents. The Bote family had relocated several miles away across a river after the initial attacks, but Dhurbe tracked them to their new settlement near Chitwan National Park. Authorities have been monitoring Dhurbe with satellite tracking collars since 2016, with the latest fitted in 2023, following an unsuccessful attempt to capture or kill the elephant in 2010. Experts suggest Dhurbe's aggressive behaviour is indicative of a broader issue where expanding human settlements increasingly encroach upon traditional elephant habitats in Nepal. In full‘Nowhere left for us to run’: Same wild elephant returns to village to kill four members of a family over 14 yearsMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Wild elephant kills four members of the same family over 14 years
Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleA wild elephant known as Dhurbe has killed 25 people in Nepal since 2010, underscoring the country's escalating human-animal conflict. Dhurbe recently killed Shanichara Bote’s 25-year-old daughter-in-law and his four-year-old grandson, 14 years after killing his parents. The Bote family had relocated several miles away across a river after the initial attacks, but Dhurbe tracked them to their new settlement near Chitwan National Park. Authorities have been monitoring Dhurbe with satellite tracking collars since 2016, with the latest fitted in 2023, following an unsuccessful attempt to capture or kill the elephant in 2010. Experts suggest Dhurbe's aggressive behaviour is indicative of a broader issue where expanding human settlements increasingly encroach upon traditional elephant habitats in Nepal. In full‘Nowhere left for us to run’: Same wild elephant returns to village to kill four members of a family over 14 yearsMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
