An elephant herd that recently entered Maharashtra from Chhattisgarh and seemed to have settled in Gadchiroli has walked to a different location about 30 km away, prompting forest officials to seek help from West Bengal to avoid man-animal conflicts.

Elephant expert Sagnik Sengupta, co-founder of NGO Stripes and Green Earth Foundation, who has been working in south Bengal and Madhya Pradesh will train forest teams from Gadchiroli on monitoring the pachyderms. The herd of about 25-30 elephants had stayed put in a particular place in the district since October 21.