India, Jan. 26 -- In a community-led initiative aimed at preventing human-elephant conflict, eight traditional elephant corridors passing through the Tarani Reserve Forest in upper Assam's Tinsukia district were formally identified, named and marked with signboards on Sunday.

Human-elephant conflict has emerged as a growing and often fatal challenge across Assam. However, Tarani village-surrounded by reserve forest on three sides, has reported only sporadic incidents over the past century. According to local records and collective community memory, approximately seven such incidents have occurred in the last 100 years.

Despite the relatively low frequency, increased elephant movement in recent years prompted villagers and forest authori...