Saturday, May 27, 2017

India, an elephant trying to cross the rice field, hit the electric fence, electrocuted

Aaccording to the British “Daily Mail” reported on May 25th, in a small village in India in West Bengal, an elephant wandering in the paddy fields, electric fence around the farm met accidentally, leading to electrocute, then the body was dragged off the truck.

After the incident, a team of forest officials rushed to the scene, lifted the elephant carcass in a truck and sent it to the inquest to determine the cause of death. Senior forest official Harris (Shri Haris) said that the elephant’s body no trauma, but there are some traces of burns on the nose. Preliminary reports show that the elephant died of electrocution, but the exact cause of the autopsy report can be determined.

A nearby villager says the elephant problem has been plaguing the villagers around them. “They destroy crops, destroy houses, and sometimes attack us.””. To keep them away from farms, some farmers set up illegal electric fences around farms.

Since 1986, India elephants have been listed as endangered by the International Union for conservation of nature, but an average of 100 elephants die each year from human conflict, a figure that worries people about the survival of elephants in India.

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