(IN): India's elephant CULLS

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Officially India may have not indulged in the mass culling of elephants in

one go like some African nations.

 

But a slow yet committed practice of targeting wild elephants

and eliminating them as 'Rouge' is an age old practice that India believes

more in rather than willing to work towards improving the habitat of the

jumbos.

 

Azam

 

 

http://thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=22 & theme= & usrsess=1 & id=263320

 

*Permission sought to kill tusker*

 

;Kanchan Siddiqui

BANKURA, 2 AUG: The forest department officials in Bankura have sought

permission from the authorities concerned to kill a tusker which has been on

the rampage recently.

The elephant, according to the forest department, had wrecked havoc and

killed three villagers and destroyed large stretch of agricultural fields

and houses in Barjora, Sonamukhi and Bishnupur range areas in the past two

months.

The Bankura (North) forest division, for the purpose, forwarded an appeal to

the state’s chief wildlife warden last week. Incidentally, the chief

minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, while inaugurating the state wide

" Aranya Saptaha " at Beliatore in Bankura on 14 July had declared that his

government would not allow killing of elephants under any circumstances. It

is one of those 14 residential elephants which are roaming between Barjora

and Bishnupur forests presently.

The DFO, Bankura (North), Mr Kulian Daivel, said: “The elephant has been

causing severe difficulty in the Barjora, Sonamukhi and Bishnupur areas. We

have noticed a sudden behavioural change in it. We are still preparing a

database on the movement and attitude of the tusker, although it appears to

be a rogue primarily.”

He said: “We didn’t want to kill it. But the negative developments have

compelled us to look for the option. However, we shall take mass consensus

before going for an ultimate decision.”

On 27 February 2003, a maljurian tusker was knocked down at Anantabati

jungle in Sonamukhi range after it had killed 12 persons. In 1999, a tusker

was killed in Basudebpur beat areas in Bishnupur.

 

 

 

 

 

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