Govt wants Flyovers for use by Wild Elephants!

As per a report:

NEW DELHI: The Centre's suggestion to construct underpasses and flyovers for safe passage of elephants to reduce deaths on railway tracks evoked the Supreme Court's derisive comment - why not put up a road sign to inform the pachyderms to use these as safe paths. Read more here at............Govt wants Flyovers for use by Wild Elephants!

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Wild elephant kills French tourist in India

CHENNAI, India – A French tourist was trampled to death by a wild elephant while trekking in southern India Friday, a forest official said.

Del Yotel Annie, a retired teacher from Neuilly Sir Marne, was taking pictures of a herd of wild elephants at Bokkapuram, adjacent to the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in Udhagamandalam, about 500 km from Chennai, when a jumbo and a calf charged her. Read More................Wild elephant kills French tourist in south India

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With Lady Love - Ape returns to the wild

A male hoolock gibbon wandered from the wild into a national park in Assam in search of a mate - and has now returned with her to his natural habitat.

The first recorded case of a wild gibbon falling in love with a captive mate at the Kaziranga reserve has delighted wildlife experts. Read more.....................................Ape returns to the wild - with lady love

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Tiger urine to keep away wild elephants

Here is an interesting story from Jharkhand state of India. Over there villagers are facing a peculiar problem.The problem: Elephants wandering into Jharkhand villages attracted by the scent of an intoxicating brew (home made liquor) and then going on the rampage in the villages causing lot's of damage to the property of villagers.

The solution? Tiger urine!

The forest department is now urging villagers to store tiger urine in the hope that it will keep marauding elephants away.

'Elephants usually do not venture into areas where tigers reside. The pungent smell of the urine will deter the jumbos from entering the villages,' said Paritosh Upadhyay, district forest officer. Read more..................Tiger urine to keep away wild elephants

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Five Lions electrocuted in India

In a shocking instance, five Asiatic lions were electrocuted in Amreli district within the Gir forest range in Gujarat state of India.

Dead bodies of five lions in a field in the village has made forest department in state sit up. Preliminary examination has revealed that they were electrocuted accidentally. The village is near the Gir sanctuary the only abode of Asiatic lions in the world.

The incident took place when the lions tried to enter into a farm, which had electrified fencing. It happened about a week back. this came to the notice of the forest department when it launched search for five lions which were missing. The department tracks movement of all lions in the Gir forest, Chief conservator of Gir forest Bharat Pathak said.

Forest department found badly decomposed bodies of three lioness and two lions. On inquiry the farmer said that he had buried the dead lions to avoid any problem. the farmer Durlabhji Vadodoria and four others have been arrested in this case.

Inspection of the bodies confirms the accidental death, as the bodies are intact. There is no indication of any kind of poaching. Forest department sources say electrified fencing was a very common phenomenon in the region as wild animals like blue bull are a great threat to the farmers.

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Cops go on a wild goose chase for a dog

Read how Cops in Surat in Gujarat state of India went on a wild goose chase for a dog.................Read full story here.........Cops go on a wild goose chase for a dog

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Love Story of two Elephants

Here is the Love Story of two elephants where a wild tusker broke through the fence of a circus and eloped with a female circus elephant.

The incident occurred at Kumarbazar in Raniganj in West Bengal state of India, where the Olympic Circus had put up a tent 10 days ago.

Drawn by calls of the four female elephants in the circus, the 26-year-old tusker raided the circus, broke the tin barricade and barged into the stable where the female elephants were kept, reports said.

After scanning the four pachyderms, he finally settled for Savitri - four years older than him - and coaxed her into fleeing with him into the jungle. It didn't take long for Savitri to give in to his wild charms. Despite entreaties from her keeper, the female elephant broke free of her shackles and went with him into the jungle, where the residents spotted the two frolicking near a pond.

The tale of love and passion has shocked Savitri's manager Chandranath Banerjee, who has sought the Forest Department's help to trace the female elephant. "I have never seen anything like this. Savitri's loss could be huge as she was one of our prized elephants," he said.

The elephants were finally spotted moving from Badam Bagan to Nepali Para in Raniganj by a district Forest officer in Durgapur, Kumar Bimal.

When a team of Forest Department officials along with her keeper Kalimuddin Sheikh tried cajoling Savitri to come back, she entwined her trunk around her lover's leg in a show of defiance.

A crestfallen Kalimuddin said this was the first time she had disobeyed him.

"I have raised Savitri since childhood and she has always been obedient. But the tusker seems to have won her affection," he said.

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Video- Wild bear operated for tumor

Here is a Video courtesy CNN-IBN which shows a Wild bear being operated for a cancerous tumor. See Video here

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Elephant robs Motorist in India

Stories of Bandits robbing on the highway have been heard earlier but have you ever heard of a "Bandit Elephant" who robs people on the highway!!! Yes, waylaying motorists in northern Keonjhar district in Orissa state of India has complained that a wild elephant refuses to let their vehicles pass unless they give him food.

Witnesses told the "Hindustan Times" daily that the elephant has been scouting for food on a highway, forcing motorists to roll down windows and get out of their vehicles. "The tusker then inserts its trunk inside the vehicle and sniffs for food," Prabodh Mohanty, who has had two encounters with the elephant, told the newspaper. "If you are carrying vegetables and bananas inside your vehicle, then it will gulp them and allow you to go."

But if the motorist does not roll down the glasses of the vehicle or resists opening the vehicle door, the pachyderm pushes the vehicle and stands right in front of it until the driver allows him to carry out its routine check.

Forest officials said the elephant is old and looking for easy food. "We are telling commuters regularly not to tease the elephant," said Sirish Mohanty, a forest ranger. "So far it has not harmed anybody. But if people don't heed our advice and harass the tusker, then it can retaliate."

India is home to nearly half the total population of wild Asian elephants. Of the 10 000 elephants in the country, more than 60% live in the eastern states.

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Leopards to roam in outskirts of Mumbai

Mumbai is India's largest city with a population of more than 16 million people. Just think, if leopards start roaming in the outskirts of the city. Do you think it's a weird idea but something similar is going to be there as per one report in Daily India. As per the report 47 leopards are to be released back into the wild - on the outskirts of Mumbai as per the Authorities in India. Now how safe it shall be is questionable.

It is going to happen as Bombay has expanded beyond its limits & now it surrounds a national wild park that was once far from the city limits. In this untouched jungle of the park, Wild leopards thrived earlier, but as the city expanded, leopards started coming into the streets, walked into the suburbs and attacked and even killed the residents over there. Ferocious leopards earlier killed 12 people in one month, among them was a four-year-old girl who was dragged from, outside her home & was taken into the jungle.

In 2004, Maharashtra state Authorities then caught hold of the leopards & once they were caught, the killings stopped. Now the Federal Environment Ministry in New Delhi has ordered the release of the leopards back into the wild. Now authorities are going to use a technique,'Electronic Tagging' generally used for the offenders, where an electromagnetic chip shall be implanted on each leopard's tail. In future, after releasing the Cats, if one does kill again somebody, then cats shall be tracked down and shall be recaptured. Now how successful this technique shall be is debatable but certainly it shall pose grave danger to the people living in the vicinity of the wild park.

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