Srinagar, Feb. 20 -- Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed 15,661 incidents of human-animal conflict in the past two years with 32 people losing their lives and 350 receiving injuries due to these, the forest department informed the J&K assembly.

The government stated that they are taking various measures to mitigate such scenarios of conflict, with numbers revealing that the cases of human- wildlife conflict have come down from 9,301 in 2023-24 to 6,360 in 2024-25.

In response to a question by legislator Mubarak Gul, the in-charge minister of forests, ecology and environment Javed Rana, said that 18 persons have died and 137 were wounded in 9,301 cases of human-wildlife conflict in the year 2023-24. Similarly, 14 human casualties and 213 inj...