High level enquiry, action, action plan requested to protect the Elephant and other wildlife in&nbs To sign and giving comments /suggestions/ recommendations in the petition Click here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/356770254 Target: Central Government and State Governments of India Sponsored by: S.GURUVAYURAPPAN, PROJECT OFFICER, WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOCIETY OF INDIA Massacare of 4 elephants happened in Kurumbanpalayam near Madukkarai in coimbatore forest divison. 2 Tuskers, one Pregnant one and its infnat and seriously hit and killed. 4 boggies of the train went out of track! one tusker is draged to about 250 meters. T The area falls under Palakkad Railway division. The mishap happened on 04.02.2008 early moring at 1.30. The train was in high speed of about 140 kmph.The location falls under project elephant area and site is a premanent elephant passage. From our records in the last 5 years elephants passes through this route and strayes in the village areas b...
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Status of Wild Elephants in southern India - News published by IANS
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IANS Jumbos under siege in southern India Thursday, 28 February , 2008, 09:04 New Delhi: Environmentalists and wildlife activists have pressed the panic button in the elephant corridor connecting Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu where the Asian tusker is under siege. According to an estimate by the NGO Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI), more than 20 elephants have died between January 2007 and January 2008 in southern India as a result of man-animal conflict. Development has eaten into the vast green swathes of the Bandipore wildlife sanctuary, the Nagarhole national park, the Madukkarai forest division, the largest reserve of Asiatic elephants, and the corridor between the Parambikulam wildlife sanctuary and Pooyamkutty genepool area, straddling the three States. The areas are loose parts of an almost contiguous elephant reserve in southern India. In January, four elephants of a herd were crushed to death by a speeding train at Kurumbanpalayam near Madukkarai in the Coimba...
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Shift the railway track from forest areas ക്ലിക്ക് ഹിയര് http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/356770254 letter submitted to The General Manager, Southern Railway, Chennai. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forestes, Trivandrum. The Chief Wildlife Warden, Chennai. The Chief Wildlife Warden, Palakkad. Subject: Request to Shift the railway track from forest areas of Walayar to outside forests - reg. In the lഅസ്ട്െകde, in all the year lot of wildlife are killed by train accident in walayar forest and nearby areas. This include killing of elephants, which has become a permanent story to public, press and media. Within 4 months, 5 elephants are killed in this area.Un accounted number of other wildlife including Sambar deer, mouse deer, monkeys, reptails etc have lost their lives on railway track all the year. In walayar especially in forest area, there are two rail tracks. One passes through deep inside the forest and another one on the fringes. More number of animal death is happenin...