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  • After consuming ‘mahua’ liquor, 24 elephants sleep for hours in Odisha forest

    By PTI

    KEONJHAR: People of a village in Odisha went inside a forest to arrange ‘mahua’, a standard nation liquor, however discovered {that a} herd of elephants already devoured the water fermented with the intoxicating flowers and are in deep sleep.

    The villagers dwelling close to Shilipada cashew forest in Keonjhar district noticed {that a} complete of 24 jumbos, who had been apparently drunk, had been sleeping close to the place the place mahua flowers had been stored in water in giant pots for fermentation.

    “We went into the jungle at around 6 am to prepare mahua and found that all the pots were broken and the fermented water is missing. We also found that the elephants were sleeping. They consumed the fermented water and got drunk,” Naria Sethi, a villager, stated.

    “There were nine tuskers, six females and nine calves. That liquor was unprocessed. We tried to wake up the animals but failed. The forest department was then informed,” he stated.

    Forest division personnel after reaching the spot within the jungle underneath the Patana forest vary needed to beat drums to wake the herd up.

    The elephants then went deep contained in the forest, stated Ghasiram Patra, the forest ranger.

    Sethi stated the herd left the place at round 10 am.

    The forest official, nonetheless, just isn’t positive whether or not the elephants received drunk after consuming fermented mahua.

    “Maybe, they were just resting there,” Patra stated.

    Villagers, alternatively, insisted that they noticed the elephants sleeping in intoxicated situations at numerous locations near the damaged pots on Tuesday.

    The flowers of Mahua tree (Madhuca longifolia) are fermented to provide an alcoholic drink additionally referred to as Mahua.

    Tribal women and men in numerous elements of India historically make this liquor.

    KEONJHAR: People of a village in Odisha went inside a forest to arrange ‘mahua’, a standard nation liquor, however discovered {that a} herd of elephants already devoured the water fermented with the intoxicating flowers and are in deep sleep.

    The villagers dwelling close to Shilipada cashew forest in Keonjhar district noticed {that a} complete of 24 jumbos, who had been apparently drunk, had been sleeping close to the place the place mahua flowers had been stored in water in giant pots for fermentation.

    “We went into the jungle at around 6 am to prepare mahua and found that all the pots were broken and the fermented water is missing. We also found that the elephants were sleeping. They consumed the fermented water and got drunk,” Naria Sethi, a villager, stated.

    “There were nine tuskers, six females and nine calves. That liquor was unprocessed. We tried to wake up the animals but failed. The forest department was then informed,” he stated.

    Forest division personnel after reaching the spot within the jungle underneath the Patana forest vary needed to beat drums to wake the herd up.

    The elephants then went deep contained in the forest, stated Ghasiram Patra, the forest ranger.

    Sethi stated the herd left the place at round 10 am.

    The forest official, nonetheless, just isn’t positive whether or not the elephants received drunk after consuming fermented mahua.

    “Maybe, they were just resting there,” Patra stated.

    Villagers, alternatively, insisted that they noticed the elephants sleeping in intoxicated situations at numerous locations near the damaged pots on Tuesday.

    The flowers of Mahua tree (Madhuca longifolia) are fermented to provide an alcoholic drink additionally referred to as Mahua.

    Tribal women and men in numerous elements of India historically make this liquor.

  • Odisha: Acoustic sensors to forestall elephant deaths on railway tracks

    By Express News Service
    BHUBANESWAR:  In a bid to forestall elephant deaths resulting from practice mishaps, the State authorities is planning to make use of acoustic sensors on railway tracks. PCCF (Wildlife) Shashi Paul, who convened a gathering with Forest division officers and Gujarat-based Ear to the Wild Foundation that works in wildlife conservation by means of know-how not too long ago, stated the system will likely be launched on pilot foundation in Rairakhol- Sambalpur stretch or the elephant hall in Dhenkanal district. 

    The Foundation had earlier made a presentation on the know-how and its fashions. “The prototype presented by the Foundation is different from other models. However, we have asked the organisation to submit a detailed proposal in this regard,” he stated.

    While different fashions monitor elephants first and ship indicators to the motive force, the sensors on this mannequin will hint practice when it approaches 3-4 km nearer to the elephant hall and ship sign to the siren posts to alert the loco-pilot of the practice for slowing down the velocity. The sensors will assist in detecting the motion of elephant herd on railway tracks. The system may even be useful in driving away the jumbos and decreasing the velocity of trains passing by means of elephant corridors, he added.

    The rushing trains in elephant corridors have proved deadly for the light giants within the State as near 30 jumbos have misplaced their lives resulting from practice accidents in final one decade. Two elephants had been killed in February this yr after being hit by a rushing items practice close to Mahipani in Sundargarh district.

    In December final yr,  trains had additionally killed two elephants on the 33-km Jujumara-Haribari railway monitor underneath Sambalpur Sadar forest vary. Wildlife officers stated although management rooms have been arrange in Khurda, Dhenkanal and different divisions to examine such mishaps, they’re on the lookout for use of know-how to cope with it extra effectively.

  • 2 elephants run over by prepare in Odisha, railways and forest officers play blame sport

    By Express News Service
    BHUBANESWAR: two elephants have been killed after being hit by a parcel van close to Mahipani in Sundargarh district within the wee hours of Thursday.

    Sources stated the mishap befell at about 1.30 am when an elephant herd was crossing the railway tracks and the dashing prepare hit two feminine jumbos on the Down line between Bhalulata-Jaraikela beneath South Eastern Railway (SER) division.

    While one elephant was discovered mendacity in between Up and Down line, one other elephant received entangled with prepare after it got here beneath the eighth coach from engine. All 4 wheels of the entrance trolley of the parcel van (subsequent to the engine) received derailed after hitting the elephants.

    Forest officers blamed the loco pilot for the tragic demise of the elephants. They alleged that although railways was intimated concerning the motion of an elephant herd, the prepare was working at a excessive pace when it hit the elephants.

    Such was the pace of the prepare that one of many grownup feminine elephants was dragged by the prepare for almost 200 metre on the observe. Another five-year-old elephant that fell outdoors the observe after being hit by the prepare additionally succumbed to accidents hours after it was rescued, they stated.

    At round 1.24 am, the details about presence of the elephant herd close to the observe was up to date on the elephant monitoring app. The efforts, nevertheless, went in useless because the dashing prepare hit the pachyderms 10 minutes later.

    “Around 30 forest staffers were monitoring the elephant herd when it was crossing the railway track. Though caution order was issued on Wednesday evening about movement of the herd near the track, the train moved at a very high speed,” stated in-charge PCCF (Wildlife) Shashi Paul.

    The incident triggered a blame sport because the railway officers claimed the warning order didn’t point out concerning the pace restriction and the alert was for sharp lookout and blowing lengthy whistle, which the loco pilot adopted.

    Senior divisional industrial supervisor of Chakradharpur, Manish Pathak, stated it’s insensitive to play the blame sport on the demise of elephants. The prepare was working at 80 kmph when the motive force utilized the brake on seeing the elephants. A probe by a four-member crew of officers has been ordered and a meetingbetween the divisional railway supervisor and PCCF has been fastened on February 8 for higher coordination, he added.

    Paul stated Rourkela RCCF Bhanja Kishore Swain has submitted a preliminary investigation report, as per which a case will probably be registered and motion taken. Last December, dashing trains had killed two elephants on the 33-km Jujumara-Haribari railway observe within the Sambalpur Sadar forest vary.