Crop raiding wild elephant captured near Coimbatore

COIMBATORE: Forest officials on Tuesday morning captured one of the
two wild elephants that were causing damage to crops in Thadagam and
Pannimadai areas of Coimbatore district.

The elephant whom locals called Vinayagan would be translocated to
Mudhumalai in the Nilgiris district.

Vinayagan and the other elephant, Chinnathambi, have been in the region
for more than six months.

The elephant was captured a day after farmers from Coimbatore met
principal chief conservator of forests H Mallesappa in Chennai and asked
him to either translocate the elephants or issue shooting orders.

Around 6am on Tuesday, the tusker was noticed in Periyathadagam reserve forest area. A team of veterinary doctors tranquilised the elephant.

Four kumki elephants -- Wasim, Vijay, Cheran and Bomman -- were brought to the spot for the operation.

The wild elephant would be loaded on to a truck with the help of two kumkis, Vijay and Wasim, and sent to Mudhumalai in the evening.

Officials said that they would radio collar the elephant monitor its movement with the help of GPS.

They said Chinnathambi would be captured soon and translocated.

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