Premier researched –based biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak has installed a 4-km stretch of community-operated solar fence to mitigate human-elephant conflict (HEC) at Bordol village (Deonapara Part 2) in Goalpara district of Assam with support from US Fish and Wildlife Service.

The area is highly a hotspot of HEC where the indigenous villagers have found the going too tough in view of frequent extensive foraging resorted to by invading herds of wild elephants in the cropland that provides livelihood for the agriculture dependent community.

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