Guwahati, Apr 30 : A 22-year-old female elephant recently dislocated its hip joint after falling 30 feet into a swampy pit in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district. In agony for five days after being pulled out, it finally succumbed.
In another incident, an elephant was hit by a train when it tried to save its calf stuck between the railway tracks.
Not just elephants, a leopard was recently battered to death by residents of Sivasagar district in upper Assam. It had strayed into the town and attacked four people before being killed.
The conflict between man and animals is becoming commonplace in Assam as encroachment increases.
“We human beings don not treat the animals right. It’s only when we provoke them that they retaliate,” says wildlife expert, Parbati Baruah.
Baruah points out there’s a huge gap between concern for wildlife and actually translating those concerns into workable solutions.
“The people in wildlife committees should dedicatedly give time on the field. Or else we won’t get results. One cannot do Project Tiger sitting in Delhi or Guwahati,” she says.
Conservation of animals is becoming difficult for the forest department as poaching is on an increase in the Northeast.
Training programmes to spread awareness hold key to preventing incidents like these but the state’s flagship elephant project has just Rs 1.5 crore as funds to implement this.
CNN-IBN
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