South African Elephant Culling Is India next?

[Guest guest]

Nowhere to run !

 

While the Prime Minister`s office is still pondering on how to save the

Tiger, the survival of yet another species in India has been neglected to

such an extent that aping South Africa`s culling is certainly not far from

becoming a reality here.

 

Can we have some posts on the above subject please. It is time we took this

matter up for discussion.

The situation in the Northeast India is alarming and I am sure it must be

pretty much the same elsewhere in the country.

 

Cement factories, stone quarries are being allowed permission to come up

right on the elephant corridors in Assam.

Fresh encroachment of elephant corridors/ reserve forests and the fringe

areas of National Parks and other protected areas is taking place on a war

footing with the following mafias on the prowl: (a) Land Mafia, (b) Timber

Mafia & © Wildlife Mafia.

There is no effort undertaken to correct human interference plus whenever

there is a conflict situation it is the 'elephants' or the wildlife that

always suffers.

Recently there was a news report that a local Assam politician along with a

gang of motorists chased a herd of elephants in a conflict situating

brandishing guns and fired several shots in the air. The politician was

quoted in the newspaper as saying that some of the stray bullets may have

also hit the elephants and injured them. Look at the audacity of thus guy,

here he is announcing on a public platform that he has been shooting at

elephants and no action is taken against him.

There is no check on the Militant camps and their activities by the

Governments to restrain them from damaging the wildlife. The Government

allows several militant organisations under ceasefire to have camps inside

the jungles where the cadres can stay along with their arms and ammunition.

An aerial trip over Assam state, one can only see green patches with no

connectivity. So where does the elephant go??

 

That is a glimpse of Assam and Northeast India. Now it would be interesting

to have some info on the other elephant populated areas of India.

 

We can certainly hope to not allow India go the South Africa way if only we

rise up with the same fire and passion as we did for the 'Tiger'.

In case we think that we should be focusing on one species at a time, we

would end up definitely pushing the Indian elephants towards nothing but

'Culling'

 

 

Azam

 

 

 

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