Longer version; Wild elephants that caused havoc destroying crops, killing people captured in Eight hours in India

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Operation Vinayak capturing a wild jumbo who created ruckles in village hamlets near periyanayakanpayalam of Coimbatore district using Tamed kumki elephants is on full swing... Two wild tuskers named vinayagam and chinnathambi often entered farm lands and destroyed them. Human lives were also lost to this wild tuskers. Unbearable losses of their near and dear ones and their farm yield made the people to give continuous pressure to the forest department to capture those elephants. After a couple of months the forest department derived an Operation named operation Vinayak to capture those wild tuskers and to rehabilitate it in the nearby forest. As a part of the mission 4 kumki elephants rounded the wild elephant and a vaccine was injected to make it unconscious so that it may be easy for capturing and for transportation. 4 medical teams were deployed in handling this tusker. It took more than eight hours for the veterinary team and experts to successfully load the animal with the help of two two Kumkis Vijay and Wasim.

The elephant was darted twice respectively and was administered a 11 ml sedation of Xylaxene and Ketamine combination. An additional mild sedation of the same combination was later given to bring the elephant under control.

An attempt was made to , tie a radio collar around its neck to monitor the animal after translocating it to Mudumalai.

During the loading, an important rope tied to control the animal cut off making the job difficult. In addition, the two Kumkis were also finding it difficult to control the 30 to 35-year-old Vinayakan who is in musth.

According to Deepak Srivastava, Chief Conservator of Forests of Coimbatore Circle, the animal would be released in a forest patch connection Bandipur, Mudumalai and Wayanad later today.

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Wasim, the giant, arrives to strengthen kumki squad

COIMBATORE: Kumki elephant Wasim from the Mudumalai Elephant Camp has reached the district to intensify the operation to drive away the two wild elephants that have been raiding human habitation on the Thadagam Valley.

The department was using kumkis Vijay and Bommi from the Mudumalai camp and Cheran and John from the Sadivayal Elephant Camp for the last one month to chase away wild elephants Vinayakan and Chinna Thambi. John was sent back to the camp as he was in musth.

Wasim, who is a huge tusker, will replace John, chief conservator of forest (CCF) Deepak Srivastava said. “Vinayakan, who weighs over 4.5tonnes, will be difficult to control. We will use negative conditioning on him. As soon as he is spotted, we will administer a mild dose of tranquillizer to control aggression. The kumkis will then be able to dominate the scene and drive him back to the forest,” he told TOI. “If our efforts fail, we will be forced to take the last option, which is translocating the tusker.”

The decision was taken based on the elephant expert’s opinion, Srivastava said. Elephant expert Ajay Desai, who had been studying the behaviour of the wild tuskers from Monday, had submitted his recommendations to the department on Thursday.

Meanwhile, district forest officer (DFO) D Venkatesh has submitted the report after analyzing the damaged caused by the tuskers in the last one month after the deployment of the kumkis. “More or less, equal amount of damage – both on property and crops – was caused by the tuskers even after the deployment of the kumkis. While the kumki operation has been carried out till the late evenings, the tuskers have been raiding the human habitations between dawn and dusk,” said Venkatesh.

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4 kumki elephants to drive 2 rogue tuskers back to forest

COIMBATORE: Vijay and Bommi, the two kumkis (trained elephants)
brought from the Mudumalai Elephant Camp, started field operations at
the Thadagam forest range on Saturday. Coimbatore-based kumkis

Cheran and John will aid them in the efforts to chase away two rouge
elephants that have intruded into the residential area.

Together, the four tuskers will guide wild elephants Vinayaka and Chinna

Thambi away from human habitations over the next fortnight. Forest
department officials hope that the wild elephants will move on to another
forest beat.

Vijay and Bommi were taken for a short walk in and around the forest area to help them acclimatize, forest department officials
said. They plan to station both the elephants on the forest fringes rather than deep inside the forest areas. “They will be
stationed on the fringes from Saturday and will get into action if any of the two troublesome wild elephants come out of the
forest,” chief conservator of forests Deepak Shrivastava said. “Since there are two wild elephants, one being Vinayaka, a
massive tusker, Cheran and John will help the duo in the operation,” he told TOI.

The department will assess the situation after 15 days of continuous operation, said the official. “If the wild elephants stop
coming to the villages and the Thadagam range in 15 days, we can consider the issue solved. Otherwise, we will look into other
options,” said Shrivastava.

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Assam: Wild elephants go on rampage in Baksa villages

A herd of wild elephants went on a rampage and left behind a trail of destruction at Nagrijuli area in Baksa district of Assam on Wednesday night. The wild tuskers created terror at several villages falling under the Nagrijuli Development Block in the said district.

It is reported that elephant habitats are shrinking along the Indo-Bhutan border due to continuous human encroachment thus forcing them to come out of their natural habitats in search of food and, in the process, triggering conflict with the locals.

The said group of wild elephants entered Nagrijuli Tea Estate on Wednesday night and sat along the bank of Bornadi River. In search of food, the marauding tuskers entered Line No 6 and 8 of Nagrijuli Tea Estate and crushed the houses of Birshi Munda, Apurba Dundi, Amrit Bagh, Albish and Dilkumar. Another herd of wild pachyderms entered the nearby Dongargao village and smashed the houses of Uttam Biswas and Gudum Munda and broke the shops of Santosh Rai and Boistav Rai.

The marauding tuskers ate whatever food was left inside the houses and the shops and caused huge loss of property. The helpless villagers tried their best to chase away the wild elephants, but in vain. The villagers as well as the labourers of Nagrijuli Tea Estate stayed awake the whole night till the group of wild elephants left for the jungles at dawn.

The villagers have demanded that the State Government and the concerned authorities should take necessary steps to stop human-elephant conflict but, wildlife activists say that human encroachment in the forests of Northeast India have forced elephants out of their habitats thus triggering the said situation. Elephants rampage through villages in search of food as their habitats are being overtaken by people, say conservationists.


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Assam: Wild elephants go on rampage in Baksa villages

A herd of wild elephants went on a rampage and left behind a trail of destruction at Nagrijuli area in Baksa district of Assam on Wednesday night. The wild tuskers created terror at several villages falling under the Nagrijuli Development Block in the said district.

It is reported that elephant habitats are shrinking along the Indo-Bhutan border due to continuous human encroachment thus forcing them to come out of their natural habitats in search of food and, in the process, triggering conflict with the locals.

The said group of wild elephants entered Nagrijuli Tea Estate on Wednesday night and sat along the bank of Bornadi River. In search of food, the marauding tuskers entered Line No 6 and 8 of Nagrijuli Tea Estate and crushed the houses of Birshi Munda, Apurba Dundi, Amrit Bagh, Albish and Dilkumar. Another herd of wild pachyderms entered the nearby Dongargao village and smashed the houses of Uttam Biswas and Gudum Munda and broke the shops of Santosh Rai and Boistav Rai.

The marauding tuskers ate whatever food was left inside the houses and the shops and caused huge loss of property. The helpless villagers tried their best to chase away the wild elephants, but in vain. The villagers as well as the labourers of Nagrijuli Tea Estate stayed awake the whole night till the group of wild elephants left for the jungles at dawn.

The villagers have demanded that the State Government and the concerned authorities should take necessary steps to stop human-elephant conflict but, wildlife activists say that human encroachment in the forests of Northeast India have forced elephants out of their habitats thus triggering the said situation. Elephants rampage through villages in search of food as their habitats are being overtaken by people, say conservationists.


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Farmers quiver as tuskers wreck crops and property

Mar 5, 2018-A herd of wild elephants has been wreaking havoc at Punarbas Municipality in Kanchanpur district near the Indian border for the past one week.

The marauding wild tuskers destroyed 38 houses and damaged crops in fields located in Punarbas Municipality. The local people are in panic due to the elephant menace in the area. “There was reign of terror when a herd of elephants entered the settlement in Punarbas-9 around 10pm on Saturday and wreaked havoc for three hours. Wheat planted in about five bighas of land was completely destroyed,” said Keshav Prasad Timilsina, a local who is also the chairman of ‘elephant victim struggle committee’.

The farmers are very worried now as the elephants damage wheat crop that is ready for harvest.

Elephant menace is a recurring problem in Punarbas area every year. The tuskers from Dudhuwa National Park in India and Shuklaphanta National Park (SNP) enter the settlements and cause havoc. The local people, especially the farmers and owner of non-concrete houses, have been greatly affected due to the problem.

Similarly, wards No 3, 5 of Punarbas that abut with the SNP are also affected. The tuskers from the park enter the settlement and damage the corps.

“Thirty-eight non-concrete houses were completely destroyed in the municipality in the past few days. Wheat and sugarcane planted in more than 25 bighas of land were also damaged,” said Mayor Dil Bahadur Air. He said that Nepal Red Cross district chapter and Jhali branch provided tarpaulins and kitchen utensils to the victims. The municipality said it provided Rs 2,000 to each family whose crops were destroyed by the tuskers.

Electric fence was set up in Punarbas area with the help of the District Forest Office, National Trust for Nature Conservation, the SNP and Tarai Arch Landscape Programme. The locals complained that the electric fence was damaged in some places and they are not repaired so far. “The tuskers entered from those places and run amok,” said Timilsina.

Mayor Air said that the municipality has allocated Rs 1.5 million budget this year to install and repair electric fence in the affected areas. “We will soon install the fence with the support of other agencies,” he added.

The mayor said the municipality is planning to install halogen lights to control the entry of the tuskers for the time being.

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Tuskers terrorise Araria villagers, injure 2 minors

Two minors were severely injured by a herd of six wild elephants at Barmasia village under Sikti block in Araria district on Friday.
Forest officials said the rampage by the wild tuskers has been going on from past three months, ever since they entered from adjoining forests in Nepal to Kishanganj and Araria and killed three persons.

Residents of almost all panchayats of Dighalbank block in Kishanganj district have complained that the elephants destroyed standing maize crop in the fields. The worst affected villages include Dhantola, Karubamini, Athgachhia, Uttar Korehili, Banswari, Surivitta, Barahbhang, Talwar Bandh and Chahatpur.

Forest officials said the elephants have destroyed standing maize crops and injured people in Simalbani and Kuchha villages under Sikti block of Araria district.

“The elephants keep coming back from Nepal even after they are made to run away from here through burning of firecrackers. The arrival of elephants in these villages is due to deforestation in adjoining areas of Nepal. Widespread cultivation of maize crop in the villages in Araria and Kishanganj districts is also luring the tuskers,” Araria district forest officer (DFO) Dinesh Chandra Das, who is camping at Kuraihily village in the district from past few days, said.

Officials said the standing maize crop, its green leaves and selves attract the elephants. “Three farmers have been trampled by the elephants over the last one month. The elephants have destroyed more than 100 acres of standing maize crop in villages along Indo-Nepal border in Kishanganj district,” Das said. He warned villagers against clicking selfies near the elephants.

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