Express News Service
October 26 2007
A trained elephant going to participate in Operation Gajendra in Jiyyammavalasa Mandal of Vizianagaram district on Thursday.
JIYYAMMAVALASA(Vizianagaram dt): Two of the nine wild elephants that are moving menacingly in the border areas of Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts, were sedated during Operation Gajendra today. One of them is a male tusker and was identified to be the one leading the herd.
The elephants were shot twice with tranquilisers in a span of five hours. They were chained in the evening after scaring away the other members of the herd which did not allow the team of wildlife experts and mahouts to come near for a few hours.
A short while after the elephants were sedated, trained elephants Ganesh and Jayanti were sent to tame the rogue elephants but the latter attacked them, resulting in their withdrawing.
The place where the operation was intensified, is situated about two kilometres from Toorpuvalasa village in Jiyyammavalasa mandal.
Additional Chief Wildlife Warden AV Joseph, Vijayanand Choudhary from Assam, District Forest Officer (DFO) BV Ramana Babu and other members of the task force conducted the operation from the base camp set up in Toorpuvalasa.
Vijayanand Choudhary, two mahouts Tarak Prabha and Hemant Reba and veterinary doctors Naveen Kumar and Srinivas set out on the mission in vehicles for some distance.
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