Elephant 'Chinnathambi' finds backer in AIML

Chinnathambi, the wild elephant that has been in the news for destroying crops much to the concern of farmers, Monday found a supporter in the All India Muslim League. The AIML has petitioned the district Collector to spare the animal as it protected the Western Ghats from encroachers who have destroyed the flora and fauna of the forests.

The petition said Chinnathambi should be brought back to Thadagam on the outskirts of the city from where the elephant was translocated to Varagaliyar, about 150 km from here, after it ran amok. The forest department officials were monitoring the elephant's movement and engaged in driving it to the jungle areas, the police said.

They said the rogue elephant, which was moving around Udumalpet in nearby Tirupur district covering over 300 kms, destroyed 10 to 15 trees in a coconut grove. Meanwhile, submitting his report on Chinnathambi to the Madras High Court, an expert Ajay Desai said the elephant was now completely habituated to humans as it does not react to people even when they are within 15-20 feet of it.

The expert said the elephant should be captured, brought into captivity and trained like all other elephants in the forest camp where it can lead a semi-natural life and be a productive part of conservation efforts. The report was filed along with the counter affidavit filed by additional principal chief conservator of forests, Coimbatore, before the Division Bench in connection with the public interest litigation (PIL). see On February 7, an animal rights body had urged the Tamil Nadu government to keep Chinnathambi in its natural forest home.

This plea came days after the Madras High Court had advised the authorities not to put a roaming jumbo to any discomfort..


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Rogue elephant returns to search for family after being relocated

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Edited text Original text Chinnathambi the rogue elephant returned to a town in south India after being transported away by forest officials several days earlier to search for his mate and calf.

Footage from the 25-year-old elephant's march today (January 31) through the town of Pollachi in Tamil Nadu state shows him undeterred by firecrackers and screaming people as he walked through the streets.

Chinnathambi was originally separated from his group and transported to a forest reserve after he started raiding village crops for food, damaging a tusk during his first capture by forest officials.

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Dramatic moment just shifted rogue elephant returns to Indian village

Description Chinna Thambi, the rogue elephant which was recently translocated to deep forests, has returned to human habitat.

The elephant entered Angalakurichi village near Pollachi on January 31 creating a new headache for forest officials.

Though villagers managed to drive it away by bursting crackers, Chinna Thambi has opted to stay on the outskirts of the village.

The forest department department officials had earlier captured and shifted the rogue elephant to Varakaliyar forest near Topslip.

But in less than a week Chinna Thambi found his way back to a village about 30 kms away from where he was left.

The elephant, which earlier lived in the Thadagam reserve forest, had become notorious for raiding crops and even homes looking for food.

Fed up with menace, local villagers had gone on protest forcing the forest department to act.

In a dramatic day-long operation on January 25, Chinna Thambi was tranquilised, tied up with ropes and then shifted to his new home on a truck.

And in less than a week, he has returned to prove that old habits die hard.

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Indian villagers chase rogue elephant with burning torches

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This is the shocking moment villagers chase a rogue elephant with burning torches.

The elephant was spotted entering a home in a village near Palamu in eastern India.

The villagers lit up torches and chased it, the elephant ran back to the forest.

Several villagers in Palamu have been complaining to forest officials to relocate an elephant herd which they say have been raiding them regularly.

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Marauding wild elephants kill two

Coimbatore/Udhagamandalam: Two persons, who were out in the open to attend nature’s call, were killed in as many wild elephant attacks reported on the outskirts of the city and in the Nilgiris district, respectively, on Saturday early morning.
While an 85-year-old man was reportedly gored to death by a wild tusker on the Noyyal river bed near Karunya Nagar on the outskirts of the city, another 45-year-old man was trampled to death by a rogue elephant at Bennai village in the Nilgiris.

According to police, C Ramasamy, of Marakkadu Thottam near Karunya Nagar, used to go to the Noyyal river bed area around 5am to attend nature’s call and return home around 6am daily.

On Saturday early morning, Ramasamy as usual left for the river bed area. As he didn’t return home even after 6am, his son Yuvaraj, 48, went in search of him and found his father battling for life with a deep injury on his abdomen. Ramasamy told his son that he was attacked by a wild elephant. Immediately, Ramasamy was taken to a private hospital at Karunya Nagar, where doctors declared him brought dead.

Boluvampatti forest ranger officer (incahrge) C Palaniraja and team visited the spot and handed over Rs 50,000 to the victim’s family members as an initial compensation.

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ROGUE WILD ELEPHANT DISRUPTS FUNERAL, STOMPS MAN TO DEATH

A 65-year-old man was trampled to death by a rogue female elephant while performing the last rites of his cousin at a burial ground located at Karumalai tea estate in Valparai here on Saturday evening.

The deceased was identified as S Velusamy, a retired tea estate employee. His cousin Rajendran, 67, of the same locality, had died of some ailment on Friday evening. Velusamy, along with other kin and neighbours of the deceased, took the body to a burial ground located at Karumalai estate in a tractor on Saturday evening. While they were performing last rites, a wild elephant charged towards them and the people ran for their life, abandoning the body at the burial ground.

Velusamy was, however, not able to run and the elephant trampled him to death. When alerted, forest officials reached the spot but the grieving relatives of Velusamy didn’t allow them to take the body to the Valparai government hospital for postmortem. They also staged a protest, urging the forest department to protect them from wild elephant attacks and also to chase the rogue elephant away into the reserve forest area.

Valparai police also reached the spot and held talks with the kin of the elephant attack victim. The kin finally agreed to take the body to the government hospital and the body was handed over to them on Sunday after the postmortem.

The forest department, meanwhile, brought kumki Kaleem from Topslip elephant camp to Valparai to chase the rogue elephant away into the reserve forest area from the tea estate. “We have deployed additional forest department field staff at the Karumalai tea estate to protect the labourers residing in the quarters. We have already initiated steps to chase away the elephant to the reserve forest and are likely to bring another kumki from Topslip elephant camp to assist us in the mission,” said V Subbaiah, district forest officer, Pollachi forest division.

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Woman, her minor son killed in elephant attack

A 35-year-old woman and her minor son were killed and houses were damaged by a herd of wild elephants in a village of Chhattisgarh?s Surguja district, police said today.

The incident took place last night in Pidiya village under Sitapur police station area, Station House Officer (SHO) Sitapur Dinesh Singh Baghel said.

A herd of wild elephants entered the village, which lies in the Mainpat forest range. A woman, Ratni Bai, and her son Sukhsai (5) were trampled to death by the elephants after they came in front of the herd, he said.

The pachyderms also damaged at least 20 houses in the village and killed a livestock before going back inside the forest, the SHO added.

The kin of the deceased have been given an instant relief amount of Rs 50,000, a local forest official said.

The thick forested northern Chhattisgarh, comprising Surguja, Korba, Raigarh, Jashpur and Korea districts, are known for human-elephant conflict.

The region has witnessed several killings of tribals and widespread damages to houses and crops by rogue elephant in the past

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Nawab Shafat Ali Khan kills rogue elephant in Jharkhand

Renowned sharp shooter from Hyderabad, Nawab Shafat Ali Khan has shot down a rogue elephant on Friday which had killed 11 people in Sahebganj district of Jharkhand and four people in neighbouring Bihar apart from wrecking havoc in many villages by destroying homes and fields of tribals.

Khan said that he reached Jharkhand on August 9 on invitation from the state government to bring down the elephant after efforts by teams of forest department staff from Jharkhand and WB did not bear fruit.

Elephant is an endangered species protected under Schedule-I of the Wildlife Protection Act. However, Khan said that he tried his best to tranquilize the elephant before killing it. He said, “The forest was very thick and there were intermittent rains. The visibility was very restricted. It was proving very difficult to take aim. Moreover, tracking the elephant was also becoming tough. Overnight the elephant was travelling as far as 20 kilometers and was destroying homes of people and injuring them. So, the decision to shoot it had to be taken.”

Khan said that he had a brush with death before taking down the elephant with his .458 Winchester magnum rifle.

He said, “The elephant charged at me and was just ten meters away when I took my shot. It was a narrow escape for me.”

Khan, who is advisor to forest departments of five States, has killed seven such elephants till now and is called for his services across the country.

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‘Terror elephant’ Chullikomban caught after tranquilizing

KANNUR: Chullikomban, the lone tusker that unleashed terror in Aralam forest region, has been finally caught after tranquilizing. The elephant that killed four people in Aralam alone, was caught after 15 hours of effort on Wednesday, said forest officials.

The forest officials began the task under the leadership of north zone forest conservator Shrawan Kumar Verma in the morning and by noon it was tranquilized by the veterinary surgeon Arun Zacharia. However, three wild elephants guarded it and hence it could not be caught, said officials. Later, around 2.30 pm, once again it was tranquilized using tranquilizer gun and the guarding elephants were driven off using trained elephants.

However, owing to rain, the rogue elephant could not be taken in a vehicle immediately, and it was around 4.30 pm that it was taken in a special vehicle. Later around 10.15 pm it was put in the cage, a temporary training crush, built specially for this purpose with eucalyptus trees.

This elephant is a mystery creature and it had been roaming around in the Aralam locality for quite some time. Normally a lone tusker will always be alone, but this one was different and at times it moved alone. It also mingled with different groups sometimes, they said.

The tusker will be shifted to the elephant shelter and training centre at Kodanad in Ernakulam district. However, since they cannot shift it immediately after tranquilizing, they must keep the rogue elephant here for a few more weeks and hence the cage.

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'Wild jumbos in the south less problematic'

KOZHIKODE: Are the wild elephants located in the forests south of Palakkad Gap less problematic when compared to their northern counterparts when it comes to human-animal conflict?

An expert committee constituted by the state forest department to look into the possibility of releasing a rogue elephant captured recently in Wayanad back into the wild says so. The panel is of the view that the less conflicting behaviour in the elephant population in the south could be linked to their genetic distinctiveness.

Taking the genetic differentiation into consideration, the committee has said in its report that "mix of the conflict animal with the less 'conflicting' south population is not admissible".

The report says that "the distinct genetic population of wild elephants exists to the South of Palakkad Gap and mixing a conflict animal could result in disastrous consequences ".

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