Kerala will double the compensation it pays for deaths and crop losses caused by wildlife attacks, the state’s forest minister said on Tuesday, as human-wildlife conflict keeps causing fatalities and crop damage in several parts of the state.
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The nilgai is India’s largest antelope, one of its most widely distributed large mammals, and possibly its most politically contested. In Bihar it is protected by religious sentiment. In Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh it has been declared vermin. The same animal, under the same law, treated in entirely opposite ways depending on where it stands.