bangalore tigers are getting too close for comfort three human deaths in five days have once more brought the mananimal conflict into focus statistics with toi show the state has seen 30 human deaths since april this year while 23 were killed in elephant attacks the rest succumbed to attacks by tigers leopards wild boars and bears in the same period around 300 head of cattle were killed by wild animals a senior forest official said 201314 is set to see even higher number of casualties due to this conflict weve crossed just half the year and the numbers are scary he said among the 13 forest circles in the state bangalore circle comprising ramanagaram bangalore urban bangalore rural bannerghatta national park kolar and chikkaballapur forest divisions tops the list in terms of human casualties 10 people were killed in the past eight months bangalore is followed by madikeri chamarajnagar and mysore circles mysore circle comprising bandipur project tiger division and hunsur wildlife sanctuary tops in cattle casualties with 119 cases followed by canara and hassan circles forest and wildlife experts say proper understanding of the mananimal conflict is needed to tackle the situation more animals less space naveen k s an environmentalist said a growing population of elephants and tigers shrinking forest cover and increasing human disturbance is opening up more spaces for the conflict on sunday a cow was killed by a leopard and elephants have been camping on the outskirts of mysore and tumkur over the past few days each wild animal needs to be tackled differently he added dinesh k another forest expert said linking forest reserves would go a long way in providing larger space for animals like tigers to move around whenever their numbers go up increasing awareness on conservation among tribals and villagers living on forest fringes will also go a long way in tackling the conflict he added ajai misra director of project elephant and additional principal chief conservator of forests said the department is studying conflict zones over the years and specific solutions are being implemented as in the case of the manelephant conflict zone in hassan efforts are gradually on to translocate jumbos to elephant camps he added