Another tusker discovered useless in Odisha’s Athagarh forest

By Express News Service

CUTTACK: There appears to be no finish to the rampant elephant poaching in Athagarh forest division as
one other tusker was discovered to have fallen prey to poachers on Monday.

Sources mentioned the carcass of the tusker was noticed by locals on a patch of agricultural land in Nua Bandha Nua Taila cashew jungle of Betia reserve forest.

The trunk of the tusker aged about 20-year-old bore a deep lower after it got here involved with a reside wire. The electrical wires have been discovered mendacity within the vegetable farmland contained in the cashew forest.

It is suspected that the tusker whereas trying to find meals might need reached the vegetable farm and subsequently received electrocuted.

The tusker is discovered to have breathed its final with extreme ache together with the discharge of stool and urine on the spot. The recent case of electrocution has belied claims that elephant motion is studiedly monitored.

“Even as the jumbo managed to get out after coming in contact with the charged peripheral fencing around the vegetable farm, it struggled, knelt down with loud screams and then collapsed while succumbing,” mentioned an eyewitness.

Locals blamed the negligence of forest officers for the tusker’s demise. They alleged that although they’ve been noticing the motion of three elephants of their locality for the previous few days, the forest officers didn’t maintain a tab on their motion because of which the tusker was killed.

On being knowledgeable, the forest officers reached the spot and launched an investigation into the incident.

This is the third tusker poaching that has occurred inside a month. While a tusker aged about 30 years electrocuted to demise after coming involved with an electrical wire related illegally to a fence round a sugarcane discipline at Kadhuanuagaon village close to Sankhapoi jungle on January 15, a miscreant had shot one other tusker aged 15 years to demise and stolen its tusks by sawing off its head in Haladiaseni reserve
forest on January 31.

CUTTACK: There appears to be no finish to the rampant elephant poaching in Athagarh forest division as
one other tusker was discovered to have fallen prey to poachers on Monday.

Sources mentioned the carcass of the tusker was noticed by locals on a patch of agricultural land in Nua Bandha Nua Taila cashew jungle of Betia reserve forest.

The trunk of the tusker aged about 20-year-old bore a deep lower after it got here involved with a reside wire. The electrical wires have been discovered mendacity within the vegetable farmland contained in the cashew forest.

It is suspected that the tusker whereas trying to find meals might need reached the vegetable farm and subsequently received electrocuted.

The tusker is discovered to have breathed its final with extreme ache together with the discharge of stool and urine on the spot. The recent case of electrocution has belied claims that elephant motion is studiedly monitored.

“Even as the jumbo managed to get out after coming in contact with the charged peripheral fencing around the vegetable farm, it struggled, knelt down with loud screams and then collapsed while succumbing,” mentioned an eyewitness.

Locals blamed the negligence of forest officers for the tusker’s demise. They alleged that although they’ve been noticing the motion of three elephants of their locality for the previous few days, the forest officers didn’t maintain a tab on their motion because of which the tusker was killed.

On being knowledgeable, the forest officers reached the spot and launched an investigation into the incident.

This is the third tusker poaching that has occurred inside a month. While a tusker aged about 30 years electrocuted to demise after coming involved with an electrical wire related illegally to a fence round a sugarcane discipline at Kadhuanuagaon village close to Sankhapoi jungle on January 15, a miscreant had shot one other tusker aged 15 years to demise and stolen its tusks by sawing off its head in Haladiaseni reserve
forest on January 31.