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Government of India

Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) V S Silekar

Ministry of Environment and Forests Shri D.D. Verma

Joint Secretary (PG)

4th Floor

Paryawaran Bhawan, CGO Complex

Lodi Road, New Delhi- 110003 INDIA

Email: secy

 

On February 5th, 2003, In the densely forested region

of India known as Chattisgarh, A wild young male

elephant was targeted and chased by a group of men

employed and directed by Parbati Baruah and her

husband, SS Bisht who, for over the last 10 years,

receive funds by the Indian government to manage

Elephant herds throughout the country under the name

Project Elephant. For over two months, Parbati Baruah

and her crew tried unsuccessfully to capture stray

elephants in the surrounding area to satisfy the

latest request by the Indian government who were

concerned about the threat of property and

agricultural damage and the increasing numbers of

human-animal conflicts that had occurred in the past 6

months in the surrounding areas.

 

The bewildered elephant was shot with a tranquilizer

gun and its head was tightly bound by thick rope to

prevent movement. The animals’ legs were drawn and

quartered and tied to trees. As he screamed, his tusks

were cut off with hacksaws. Still alive, he struggled

in vain but was left unable to free himself from the

thick ropes that had now cut into his skin. For the

next eighteen days, he suffered from his injuries and

without food or water until he died. This gruesome

incident was captured on film by Mike Pandey and his

crew who were working on a research project also

commissioned by the Indian government. The footage has

being distributed to gain support in lobbying the

Indian parliament to instate humane elephant

relocation and transition methods in addition to

conducting an investigation in the horrific torture

and death of this Elephant.

 

Project Elephant was initially created in 1992 by the

government of India to conserve and protect Elephant

populations throughout India by providing education

,monitoring & communication equipment to forest

department employees, provide veterinary medicine and

training facilities, establish anti poaching regimes ,

develop corridors for safe migratory passage ,

implement habitat preservation and relocation

assignments However, despite the projected intentions,

corrupt leadership and mismanagement has replaced any

hope of success or accomplishment with accounts of

severe torture and death by the use of inhumane

methods of capture known as mela shikar or Kheda by

the very people who were appointed to protect this

species over a decade ago.

 

By signing this petition you are supporting the

efforts of The International Fund for Animal Welfare

www.IFAW.org in association with The Wildlife Trust of

India www.wti.org who are asking for the immediate

suspension of duties and elephant captures by Ms.

Parbati Baruah and her husband, SS Bisht, director of

Project Elephant.

 

We, the undersigned are petitioning the Ministry of

Forests and the Indian Government to implement an

immediate revocation of title, authority and funding

from Ms. Parbati and her husband, SS Bisht for their

direct involvement in the inhumane capture and

subsequent torture and death of a young male bull

elephant in Chattisgarh that occurred in February,

2003. We are asking that until humane methods used to

restrain and capture Elephants can be demonstrated and

employed by qualified highly trained personnel that

all Elephant captures are suspended by Project

Elephant.

 

cc: Shri Alok, Director of Grievances

Reforms and Public Grievances,

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances

And Pensions,

Government of India,

Sardar Patel Bhavan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi –110 001.

Tel :011-91-11- 336 2325

FAX : 011-91-11- 374 2133

e-mail : alok

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GREATNESS OF NATION AND ITS MORAL PROGRESS

CAN BE JUDGED BY THE WAY ITS ANIMALS ARE TREATED- M.K GANDHI.

STOP HUMAN AND ANIMAL SUFFERING - GO VEGAN

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do

something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Helen Keller 1880 - 1968

 

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