Pangti: Altogether 99 households located in human-elephant conflict prone areas of Wokha district were provided 4950 kg rice as ‘grain-for-grain’ relief through a Rapid Action Project (RAP) to assist elephant conservation efforts in the state.
The beneficiary households belong to Pangti, Ashaa and Sungro villages and they were selected after a study on human-elephant conflict in the region by the project implementers in association with the village council members.
The ‘grain-for-grain’ carried out for the first time in Nagaland is an initiative by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) to provide relief to farmers who have incurred crop losses to wild elephants.
The RAP by Natural Nagas and WTI was supported by CAF – India (Charities Aid Foundation) and philanthropist Lakshmy Reddy. (PTI)
