Save the Elephant Day: Forest officials keep MCC directives in mind
On Save the Elephant Day, Bankura, Jhargram and West Midnapore, the vulnerable elephant corridors in Bengal reserved any programme today due to the ensuing model code of conduct.
On Save the Elephant Day, Bankura, Jhargram and West Midnapore, the vulnerable elephant corridors in Bengal reserved any programme today due to the ensuing model code of conduct.
Earlier in October 2022, the same elephant attacked a shopkeeper resulting in his hospitalisation with broken ribs and bones.
Following protests by locals, the Kerala government announced Rs 10-lakh compensation and a job to the kin of the deceased.
The forest department of Bankura (north) and Bishnupur divisions have arranged special transportation for the examinees from the villages in Barjora, Beliatore, Gangajalghanti and Sonamukhi Range areas
Sub Divisional Officer Pratappur Ashutosh Bhagat stated that the arrested suspects are being interrogated. The involvement of other villagers is also being investigated. Everyone involved in the crime will be brought to justice. Action will be taken against all under the Wildlife Protection Act, added Bhagat
The tiger census is held once in four years while for the elephants, the exercise is carried out once in five years. There are 2,967 tigers as per the 2018-19 data, and as per the 2017 data, there are less than 30,000 elephants in the country.
In Dalma range, despite the death of the pachyderms, the villagers have constructed electrical fencing to protect the agricultural produce and, no less crucially, their homes. In the span of a week, such unauthorized fences have claimed the lives of two full-grown elephants in Bankura.
The State has already reported 97 human deaths and 96 in HEC in 2021-22 so far. In the last six weeks the Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) has been raging in all elephant-bearing districts with more elephants entering villages in search of food.
The radio collars will be Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled and will track the real time location of problematic wild elephants.
According to local sources, the incident took place on Friday when an elephant came in contact with live electric wires illegally put up around a cultivable land near the Khairakata area inside the Diana forest range.
