MYSURU
Karnataka, which harbours around 6,000 elephants in the wild as per the 2017 census, has lost 70 of them due to various causes in 2021.
Of these, 15 were attributed to unnatural causes, including 10 due to electrocution. One elephant was killed in a train accident, another was shot, one elephant died due to injuries caused by snares while the cause of death was not ascertained in one case. The remaining were classified as death due to natural causes.
