India's Efforts to Tackle Human-Animal Conflict: Relocating Killer Elephants and Seeking National Consensus on Laws.

A wild elephant named Arikomban, who had killed seven people, has been relocated to a tiger reserve in southern India after a legal battle. The elephant had been a familiar sight for people living near the Devikulam forest range in Idukki district for decades. Initially, the state forest department planned to capture Arikomban and make him a trained captive elephant, but animal welfare activists petitioned the Kerala high court against this. The high court then formed a committee, which recommended that the elephant be captured and relocated to an area where there would be little chance of conflict with humans.