In western Nepal, farmers switch to growing turmeric; elephants stay away

Mongabay
Aug 12, 2025, 10:39 pm371 ptsTop
KATHMANDU — Nayaram Sunar vividly remembers the day at the end of monsoon season in 2019, when rain was pouring in relentlessly on his sister’s corn field in the village of Madhuwan in western Nepal’s Bardiya district. A wild elephant (Elephas maximus) not only feasted on the harvest but smashed the…

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