The Odisha government has sought assistance of Tamil Nadu for making kumki elephants and mahouts available in the wake of worsening human-elephant conflict in the eastern State. Odisha’s Additional Chief Secretary Satyabrata Sahu wrote a letter to his Tamil Nadu counterpart Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief Secretary stating: “In recent years, we have been facing significant challenges in mitigating human-elephant conflicts. …
Though captive elephants have celebrity status in Kerala with a huge fan following social media, the Forest department’s mission to translocate wild tusker Arikomban has catapulted some of the kumki elephants in its camps into stardom. However, among captive elephants, Thechikottukavu Ramachandran, owned by the Thechikkottukavu Temple Trust in Thrissur, billed as the tallest captive elephant in India, remains the …
