Farmers dying daily due to elephants in Karnataka: Deve Gowda in RS

New Delhi, March 9 (UNI) Former Prime Minister and Rajya Sabha member, HD Deve Gowda, today said farmers in Karnataka were dying "almost every day" due to attacks by rogue elephants, linking the growing human-wildlife conflict to shrinking forest habitats and irrigation projects. Raising the issue in the Rajya Sabha, Gowda said the matter was complex as it involved forests, irrigation, wildlife and environmental protection. He said elephants were increasingly entering villages in districts such as Chikkamagaluru, Shivamogga and Hassan in search of food, destroying crops and sometimes killing farmers working in the fields. "Every day there is a death.…