Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) issues on O’valley Forest Range, Gudalur Forest Division, Tamil Nadu (11º 27’17 ’’N, 76º 28’43’’ E) was carried out from December 2016 to February 2017. It is an important landscape for Conflict issues to compare other forest ranges in Gudalur Division. The results of human deaths due to elephants found that totally 11 deaths were recorded during past 10 years. Of which, 2014 and 2015 attributed highest deaths (54%). The month wise human casualities showed that deaths were in peak between December and July. Most of the human death incidences were occured between 08:00 hrs and 10:00 hrs (27 %). The sex and location of human deaths result showed that men were more severely affected than the women. Among the males (n=4) about 80 % of deaths were recorded. The results of age category of victims showed that 40 to 50 years were affected 55 % followed by 50 to 60 years age category (36 %) irrespective of sex . Totally 5 elephant deaths were recorded from 2008 to 2016. The main almost all deaths, were due to diseases and natural death. The highest percentage of deaths were recorded in 2012 to 2014 as 80 %. An average of only 0.56 % elephant deaths per year , of which 80 % of the elephants were male, and most of them adult category 16 to 40 years old and totally Rs. 277272.727/- was paid as ex-gratia for human deaths and injury caused by the elephants. Totally 23 houses were damaged by elephant from 2008 to 2016, 2.88 houses per year.
