Elephants in Tamilnadu Environment!
Elephants play a vital role in environmental scenario in Tamilnadu. Their activities
have terrorized the farmers as well as local family folks.
Elephants have made it a practice to enter the fields in Erode, Dharmapuri,
Krishnagiri and Coimbatore district in Tamilnadu and destroy them ruthlessly.
They have even crushed many farmers to death.
Recently near Soolagiri town a group of elephants terrorized the pedestrians. The
mango grove watchman and his grandson were killed by elephants in Guruparapalli. A
farmer in Karimangalam Dharmapuri District was stamped to death by a wild elephant. If
such incidents had happened during the normal days other than election days then
immediately some relief will be arranged by the District Collector. But during the recent
elections all the Revenue officials and District Collector office staffs were busy and even
small preventive measures like firing crackers to frighten the elephant away from the
fields were not done.
The elephants are now accustomed to such frightening tricks and also escape
intelligently from the pits dug for them to trap. Every year 5 lakh families are attacked and
killed by forest elephants. The forest officials say that 150 elephants are killed every year
as they do atrocities. In that battle 40 forest officials and tribesmen are killed every year.
In the Western Ghats, which touch Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka we can see
maximum number of elephants. Around 15000 Sq.km area of this region has 8500
elephants.
The main reason is that the elephant walk path is now occupied by Tribesmen and
cause hindrance to them. Hence out of anger they throw out those people. It also moves
about in other areas and destroys the field crops. “If we don’t enter the regions where
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Elephants play a vital role in environmental scenario in Tamilnadu. Their activities
have terrorized the farmers as well as local family folks.
Elephants have made it a practice to enter the fields in Erode, Dharmapuri,
Krishnagiri and Coimbatore district in Tamilnadu and destroy them ruthlessly.
They have even crushed many farmers to death.
Recently near Soolagiri town a group of elephants terrorized the pedestrians. The
mango grove watchman and his grandson were killed by elephants in Guruparapalli. A
farmer in Karimangalam Dharmapuri District was stamped to death by a wild elephant. If
such incidents had happened during the normal days other than election days then
immediately some relief will be arranged by the District Collector. But during the recent
elections all the Revenue officials and District Collector office staffs were busy and even
small preventive measures like firing crackers to frighten the elephant away from the
fields were not done.
The elephants are now accustomed to such frightening tricks and also escape
intelligently from the pits dug for them to trap. Every year 5 lakh families are attacked and
killed by forest elephants. The forest officials say that 150 elephants are killed every year
as they do atrocities. In that battle 40 forest officials and tribesmen are killed every year.
In the Western Ghats, which touch Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka we can see
maximum number of elephants. Around 15000 Sq.km area of this region has 8500
elephants.
The main reason is that the elephant walk path is now occupied by Tribesmen and
cause hindrance to them. Hence out of anger they throw out those people. It also moves
about in other areas and destroys the field crops. “If we don’t enter the regions where
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