Voices to #SaveChinnathambi get louder, petition to set him into wild
6 years, 1 month ago

Voices to #SaveChinnathambi get louder, petition to set him into wild

Deccan Chronicle  

Coimbatore: Under #SaveChinnathambi campaign, as many as 60 people including environmentalists, animal activists, the public from different walks of life, residents of Anaikatti, heads and representatives of organisations working for the animal welfare, on Monday petitioned district collector Mr T N Hariharan urging him to ensure that the wild tusker is captured and relocated into Anaikatti or the Thadagam valley, which he treats as his home, instead of being trained as a ‘kumki’. The High Court decision on making the wild tusker a ‘kumki’ must be revoked, as the same is equal to murdering him, the petition said. Blaming the man-animal conflict on the encroachments by brick kilns that are functional in Anaikatti which is an elephant corridor, the activists who submitted the petition demanded that the pathway of elephants is cleared. After submitting the petition under leadership of advocate Panneerselvam, a group of members held posters with an image of the wild tusker and shouted slogans in support of Chinna thambi outside the district collectorate campus on routine grievance day.

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Forest Department continues to monitor wild elephant near Coimbatore
1 month, 1 week ago

Forest Department continues to monitor wild elephant near Coimbatore

The Hindu  

The Forest Department is continuing to monitor a male wild elephant that allegedly trampled two persons to death and caused damages to properties in villages bordering forests. Field staff from Coimbatore and Periyanaickenpalayam forest ranges have been tasked to monitor the movement of the elephant, following demands from certain sections of farmers for its translocation. An official from the Department …

Forest Department brings kumki Chinnathambi to its home turf
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Forest Department brings kumki Chinnathambi to its home turf

The Hindu  

The Forest Department on Monday brought kumki Chinnathambi from the Anamalai Tiger Reserve to Varappalayam in Thadagam valley in Coimbatore district to drive out wild elephants that enter human habitations. Thadagam valley is the home turf of Chinnathambi as the tusker was first captured and translocated from the area, following consistent demands from farmers due to crop raiding, on January …

One arrested for ‘provoking’ wild tusker with JCB crane at West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri
1 month, 3 weeks ago

One arrested for ‘provoking’ wild tusker with JCB crane at West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri

The Hindu  

One man has been arrested by the police for allegedly provoking a wild tusker in Malbazar in North Bengal’s Jalpaiguri, after videos surfaced of a conflict between the elephant and locals on Sunday. According to West Bengal’s Chief Wildlife Warden Debal Ray, the accused was arrested for allegedly provoking and attacking the elephant with a JCB crane. Along with wildlife …

Kumkis bring relief to Urangattiri residents after elephant episode
2 months, 1 week ago

Kumkis bring relief to Urangattiri residents after elephant episode

The Hindu  

Forest and wildlife authorities began patrolling the forest fringes with two trained kumki elephants at Koorankallu near Odakkayam in Urangattiri panchayat, where an elephant had fallen into a well in a private plantation on Thursday, triggering a chain of protests and resistance by local residents. We have addressed the issue entirely by taking the people into confidence,” said Edavanna range …

Forest Department brings kumki Muthu from ATR to drive out wild elephants in Coimbatore
2 months, 1 week ago

Forest Department brings kumki Muthu from ATR to drive out wild elephants in Coimbatore

The Hindu  

A day after a 69-year-old man from Pannimadai near Coimbatore was trampled to death by a wild elephant, the Forest Department on Friday brought a kumki from the Anamalai Tiger Reserve to drive out wild elephants that enter human habitations. Forest Department officials said that kumki Muthu from Kozhikamuthi elephant camp of ATR was brought to Coimbatore on Friday evening. …

Tusker Arikompan caught, to be released in Periyar sanctuary
1 year, 11 months ago

Tusker Arikompan caught, to be released in Periyar sanctuary

The Hindu  

A day after they set out to capture and translocate wild tusker Arikompan, the members of the special task force of the Forest department succeeded in the mission after a gruelling day-and-night operation on Saturday. Tranquilised and hemmed in by four kumki elephants, the tusker put up stiff resistance but finally allowed itself to be pushed into the loading bay …

Coimbatore: Chinna thambi captured again
6 years, 1 month ago

Coimbatore: Chinna thambi captured again

Deccan Chronicle  

Coimbatore: The famous wild tusker Chinna thambi was captured again after darting on Friday and relocated to the Varagaliyar elephant camp where it will undergo a couple of months training with the help of a mahout and released along with tamed elephants in Kozhikamuthi near Top Slip. According to Anamalai Tiger Reserve field director, V. Ganesan, arrangements were kept ready …

Coimbatore tops in human-elephant conflict in State: Ajay Desai
6 years, 1 month ago

Coimbatore tops in human-elephant conflict in State: Ajay Desai

The Hindu  

The Coimbatore Forest Division has the highest number of human deaths and injuries caused by elephant attacks in the State, said a report on wild elephant Chinna Thambi submitted by elephant expert Ajay Desai, a consultant to WWF-India, to the Forest Department. As per the report submitted by Mr. Desai, the number of people killed or injured by elephants ranges …

Relocate Chinna thambi to Mudumalai: Experts
6 years, 1 month ago

Relocate Chinna thambi to Mudumalai: Experts

Deccan Chronicle  

Coimbatore: Elephant experts have suggested relocating Chinna thambi to Mudumalai where the so-called another crop raider Vinayagan was released a month ago. Two wild elephants named as Vinayagan and Chinna thambi by the local tribes were tranquilized and relocated from Coimbatore forest division recently following the pressure by a section people who allegedly claim themselves as farmers of Thadagam valley. …

Tusker Chinnathambi enters rail station near Udumalpet
6 years, 1 month ago

Tusker Chinnathambi enters rail station near Udumalpet

Deccan Chronicle  

Coimbatore: Translocated wild elephant Chinnathambi entered the railway station near Udumalpet on Saturday and the helpless Forest department personnel are planning to capture the elephant for making it as a ‘captive kumki elephant’. The so-called problematic wild elephant was recently tranquilized and relocated from Thadagam valley of Coimbatore and was released inside the dense forest of Anamalai Tiger reserve. The …

Chennai: Another wild crop-raiding tusker gets translocated
6 years, 2 months ago

Chennai: Another wild crop-raiding tusker gets translocated

Deccan Chronicle  

Coimbatore: Within a span of 38 days, yet another wild elephant was captured in the forest division here on Friday, in an operation named ‘Chinnathambi Gaja yatra’, that was radio collared for translocation. Following continuous petitions by some farmers and brick chamber owners of Thadagam valley, politicians pressurised the forest department to capture the two so-called ‘crop raiding’ tuskers, that …

Coimbatore: Problem' tusker relocated to MTR amid protests
6 years, 3 months ago

Coimbatore: Problem' tusker relocated to MTR amid protests

Deccan Chronicle  

Coimbatore​: After continuous agitation by a section of farmers and political pressure, the Forest department undertook ‘operation Vinayak’ on Tuesday by relocating one of the ‘innocent’ wild tuskers from Coimbatore but charged as ‘crop raiders’, to Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. While the Forest department had planned to capture the two so-called ‘problematic crop raiding wild tuskers Vinayagan and Chinna-Thambi’ from Coimbatore …

Wild jumbo ransacks houses, school near Chinnathadagam
6 years, 8 months ago

Wild jumbo ransacks houses, school near Chinnathadagam

Deccan Chronicle  

COIMBATORE: A Single wild elephant entered a village near here in the early hours of Saturday, ransacked houses and a government high school near Chinnathadagam. According to a Forest department source, the wild tusker entered Chinna Thadagam around 4 am on Saturday and damaged three houses of brick chamber laborers. The elephant emptied a 500-liters water tank filled up for …

Alappuzha: Now, protest against releasing tusker to forest
8 years, 1 month ago

Alappuzha: Now, protest against releasing tusker to forest

Deccan Chronicle  

Alappuzha: The wild tusker Kallur Komban, leading a caged life for more than two months in Wayanad now, will remain in captivity for the time being. Dhanesh Kumar, the wildlife warden, said the forest department took efforts to release the tusker into Anakkalvayal of Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary after a government order following widespread protests. Earlier, a seven-member committee headed by …

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