Kerala’s troublemaking tusker Arikompan still comes for rice
1 year, 6 months ago

Kerala’s troublemaking tusker Arikompan still comes for rice

The Hindu  

Late on May 25, Arikompan made an attempt to return home. Based on this, the Kerala High Court, on April 13, ordered the translocation of the animal first to Parambikulam and then to Periyar Tiger Reserve, after consulting an expert committee. After vanishing into the deep forests for a couple of days, the tusker first emerged at Vannathiparai under the Srivilliputhur-Megamalai Tiger Reserve in Theni district, Tamil Nadu, which is a contiguous forest of the Periyar Tiger Reserve. The Periyar Tiger Reserve and the adjacent forest area will provide enough food and water to the animal,” said P.S. We hope the process will ultimately help bring up a healthy and functional elephant population in both the Periyar Tiger Reserve and the Megamalai Tiger Reserve,” said Arun R.S., chief conservator of forests, High Range Circle, Kerala.

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Tusker damages house, crops, makes off with 50kg cattle feed near Chinnathadagam in TN
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Tusker damages house, crops, makes off with 50kg cattle feed near Chinnathadagam in TN

New Indian Express  

COIMBATORE: Family members of a banana and maize cultivator were left horrified after an elephant broke through their chain-link fence and damaged their crops in Varapalayam near Chinnathadagam in the wee hours on Sunday. The elephant took away 50 kgs of cattle feed after damaging banana and maize crops at their farm. Narrating the incident, R Shanmugam said his family …

WATCH | Wild tusker captured in Belur taluk of Karnataka’s Hassan district
8 months, 1 week ago

WATCH | Wild tusker captured in Belur taluk of Karnataka’s Hassan district

The Hindu  

The Karnataka Forest Department officials, with the help of a team of tamed elephants, captured a wild tusker, which had been causing trouble to local people in a coffee estate at Vatehalli near Arehalli in Belur taluk of Hassan district on Thursday, April 18. #Karnataka Forest Department officials capture a wild tusker at a coffee estate in Vatehalli of Belur …

Wild elephant enters densely populated area near Dharmapuri; tranquilisation risky
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Wild elephant enters densely populated area near Dharmapuri; tranquilisation risky

New Indian Express  

Speaking to TNIE, forest department staff said, “The tusker could have lost its sense of direction at night and have wandered near A Gollahalli. Because of its current position, we are unable to conduct an elephant drive because there is an increasing risk of the tusker wandering into the residential areas in the municipality.” Sources added it would be pointless …

Forest Department to capture crop raider makhna for third time
1 year, 5 months ago

Forest Department to capture crop raider makhna for third time

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu Forest Department will give a third chance to a crop-raider makhna that was translocated from Dharmapuri to Anamalai Tiger Reserve in February, to live in the wild. The ongoing effort to capture and translocate the elephant for a third time, as it has been entering villages near Pollachi, will give the animal yet another chance to live …

Elephant Arikompan captured in Theni district; to be shifted to Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
1 year, 6 months ago

Elephant Arikompan captured in Theni district; to be shifted to Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve

The Hindu  

Ending an operation that lasted over five days, the Tamil Nadu Forest Department officials successfully tranquillised wild elephant, Arikompan also known as Arisikompan, at Uthamapalayam in the Chinna Ovulapuram reserve forest in Theni district, early on Monday, June 5, 2023. The pachyderm was transported in a truck by Forest Department officials, and as the vehicle entered villages, residents lined up …

Is Arikompan on its way back home?
1 year, 6 months ago

Is Arikompan on its way back home?

The Hindu  

The wild tusker Arikompan is believed to be on its way back to its original habitat Chinnakkanal, when it encountered some major disruptions en route, leading to a diversion of its path to Cumbum town. said elephants were a homing nature animal and the tusker was trying to move back to its habitat at Chinnakkanal. “The expert committee later selected …

Tusker Arikompan enters residential areas in Cumbum; power, transport suspended
1 year, 6 months ago

Tusker Arikompan enters residential areas in Cumbum; power, transport suspended

The Hindu  

Wild tusker Arikompan had entered Cumbum in Theni district, and was seen roaming through the town on May 27 morning, after being spotted near a human habitation in Kumily, Idukki on May 26. Arikompan has been making the rounds along the Kerala -Tamil Nadu border since April 29, when it was released into the Periyar Tiger Reserve. Watch | Elephant …

Wild tusker ‘Arikompan’ comes close to human habitation in Kumily near Thekkady
1 year, 6 months ago

Wild tusker ‘Arikompan’ comes close to human habitation in Kumily near Thekkady

The Hindu  

‘Arikompan’, the wild tusker that was radiocollared and translocated from Chinnakkanal to Periyar Tiger Reserve in Thekkady because of its penchant for raiding provision shops in Santhanpara and Chinnakkanal panchayats, has now returned to the neighbouring Kumily town worrying forest department officials and local natives. According to forest department officials, tusker ‘Arikompan’ reached around 150 meters at the human habitation …

Arikompan seems to explore new habitat in Megamalai
1 year, 7 months ago

Arikompan seems to explore new habitat in Megamalai

The Hindu  

Wild tusker Arikompan which was translocated from Chinnakkanal to the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Idukki is still roaming the Megamalai region in Tamil Nadu. According to Tamil Nadu Forest department officials, the tusker has been camping in the Megamalai region for the past three days. “The Tamil Nadu Forest department team sighted the tusker around 3 p.m. on Sunday opposite …

Arikompan takes a sojourn to Tamil Nadu forests but is back in Kerala now
1 year, 7 months ago

Arikompan takes a sojourn to Tamil Nadu forests but is back in Kerala now

The Hindu  

The radio collar fitted on wild tusker Arikompan, which was translocated from Chinnakanal to the Periyar Tiger Reserve on Sunday, indicate that it went on a sojourn to Tamil Nadu forest and is now back in Kerala forest. Before its translocation to the PTR, the forest department had attached a satellite radio collar to the tusker, which officials say provides …

Kerala elephant who terrorised villagers released in reserve
1 year, 7 months ago

Kerala elephant who terrorised villagers released in reserve

Hindustan Times  

A bull elephant notorious for breaking into homes and ration shops to steal rice, earning him the moniker of Arikomban was on Sunday morning released into the deep interiors of Periyar Tiger Reserve, forest officials said. This picture taken on April 29, 2023, shows forest officials transporting 'Arikomban' the wild elephant, at Idukki district in India's Kerala state. Giving details …

Tusker Arikompan caught, to be released in Periyar sanctuary
1 year, 7 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 …

Rice eating tusker's fate capture's Kerala media's attention
1 year, 8 months ago

Rice eating tusker's fate capture's Kerala media's attention

Deccan Chronicle  

Idukki : Arikkomban, a bull elephant fond of eating rice, which also earned him the moniker, lazily forages in a thicket along with his herd in Chinnakanal area of this high range district. However, it was the intervention of the Kerala High Court -- which has for now allowed Arikkomban to stroll around freely for a few more days -- …

Operation to drive back single-tusker into forest in Talavadi begins
2 years, 5 months ago

Operation to drive back single-tusker into forest in Talavadi begins

The Hindu  

With the 10-member elephant tracking team tracing the single-tusker inside the forest area, the Forest Department began the operation to drive back the tusker deep into the forest here on Friday. In the morning, a team comprising personnel from ATR and STR entered the forest and found the tusker three km inside the reserve forest, near Eripuram village. Based on …

Rescued tiger released into large enclosure in ATR for rewilding
2 years, 6 months ago

Rescued tiger released into large enclosure in ATR for rewilding

The Hindu  

A tiger, which was rescued by the Anamalai Tiger Reserve staff as a five-month-old cub from a tea estate near Valparai in September last year, was released into a large enclosure on Sunday as part of Tamil Nadu’s first tiger rewilding programme. The tiger, now aged around 13 months and weighing nearly 120 kg, was shifted from the cage to …

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