There is a great swimming pool, breakfast is varied and caters for all tastes. Nightly cocktails are available at the tree bar, where you can relax, catch the last rays of sunshine, and enjoy great views. Bathrooms are modern, clean and have all facilities, include a large modern bath for those who wish to soak. The rooms are modern, clean and extremely comfortable with plenty of space. A great beach for early morning or late evening photography.
This is not a surf beach, as there is a reef about 500 meters offshore that ensures the waters on the beach are always comfortable, with no tidal rips or big waves. Wake to a great sunrise with views on the volcano and still reflective waters. It has advised farmers to plant crops that elephants do not like to eat, like lemons or ginger.We spent a wonderfull five nights in this modern hotel, right on a very quiet small beach.
The Indian government is working to complete more than 30 new elephant corridors, which would help the animals to move around the country without coming into contact with humans. Some of the elephant deaths occurred during retaliatory attacks, such as poisoning or electrocution, after an animal first damages farmers’ crops. The report concluded that no country in the world would be as affected by human-animal conflict in the upcoming years as India, which is home to 1.38 billion people and approximately 27,000 wild elephants.Ī total of 1,401 humans and 301 elephants were killed over two years from 2018 to 2020 in India, according to the country’s Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate. India’s elephants are restricted to just three per cent of their original habitats, according to a joint report published by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the UN Environment Programme in 2021. The elephant that attacked Ms Murmu had strayed from the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, near the city of Jamshedpur, where there have been reports of uncontrolled mining, tree felling and construction work in the reserve’s buffer zone. Elephant-human conflict on the riseĮlephant-human conflict is on the rise in India due to deforestation, primarily to make way for new human settlements, industry and agriculture, which pushes elephants outside of shrinking protected areas in the search for food. Her terrified family members fled the scene and were only able to complete Ms Murmu’s last rites several hours later, once the elephant had left the area. On Saturday evening, while her family members were performing her last rites, the same elephant appeared and took Ms Murmu’s body from the pyre and trampled on it, before throwing it away.
Maya Murmu, 70, was targeted by a wild elephant that had strayed from a nearby wildlife sanctuary while collecting water in the district of Mayurbhanj.ĭespite being rushed to hospital, the elderly woman succumbed to her injuries in hospital and her body was placed on a funeral pyre the same evening. The incident was said to have occurred in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Thursday, and comes amid rising animal-human conflict in the country. An elephant trampled a woman to death in India, only to return during her funeral to pull her body off a pyre and trample over her corpse again.