Quirimbas National Park was established in 2002 and stretches along the northeast coast of Mozambique.
An ongoing series of raids by elephants from Mozambique’s Quirimbas National Park into nearby farmland has forced the entire 5,000 families of Nraha to abandon their village.
The country’s Noticias daily reports the jumbos have ravaged crops and frightened children so much that they refuse to make the trip to school.
The residents of Nraha started fleeing their village in April of this year, moving to safer zones, according to the report.
Violent encounters between humans and animals have become more frequent across Mozambique since wildlife populations began to recover following the end of the country’s civil war in 1992.
Attacks by wild animals killed 133 people during 2007, prompting the government to authorize the army to shoot problem animals.