🐘 Valparai Elephants — Tracking & Human–Elephant Conflict

15,181 tracking detections (2013-04-07 → 2024-03-31) · 971 conflict incidents · 12 herds/individuals · 15,104 GPS-valid points mapped  ·  Needs an internet connection for base-map tiles and chart libraries.

Movement through the decade — starts blank; press Play to add every detection one by one, oldest to newest

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Elephant presence — filtered tracking detections

Detections by season

Field year runs Apr→Mar. No fieldwork in 2020-21 (COVID).

Seasonality by month

Months ordered Apr→Mar.

Habitat use — day vs night

Elephants shelter in forest by day, enter plantations at night.

Behaviour mix

Stay / Movement / Conflict records.

Detection evidence

How each record was detected.

Detections by herd

Human–elephant conflict — ~971 geolocated incidents, 2012–2024 (responds to Herd & Season only)

Conflict incidents by season

Conflict by month

Seasonality of incidents (Apr→Mar).

Conflict by plantation company

Where conflict happens

Place category of the incident.
Data: NCF Valparai elephant tracking (2013–2024) and conflict incident records (2012–2024). Names standardised, coordinates validated to the Valparai landscape, dates re-parsed. Generated 2026-07-06.