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3 wild jumbos disturb normal life in Palakkad-Thrissur border

  • Three wild elephants ventured into the villages in Palakkad and Thrissur
  • The jumbos, including a tusker and a calf, were spotted in various areas in Thrissur-Palakkad districts
  • The elephants are reluctant to return to near by forests and forest officials have issued an alert in the area
3 wild jumbos disturb normal life in Palakkad Thrissur border

Even after several attempts, forest officials and local people in Thrissur-Palakkad districts have failed to send back the wild elephants to Mundoor forests. It had been two days since the jumbos are wandering along the villages of Palakkad. 

Forest officials are also confused as the elephants are reluctant to go back to forests. The officials can't find a feasible option to drive off the pachyderms. 

Three wild elephants, which strayed into human settlements on the border villages of Thrissur-Palakkad districts since the past two days are giving sleepless nights to the people, even as forest and police officials are trying to chase them back into the forest.

The jumbos, including a tusker and a calf, were spotted in various areas in Thrissur-Palakkad districts.



According to local people, the animals were first spotted in Mundur and Parali areas of Palakkad yesterday and later found in Thiruvilwamala and adjacent places in Thrissur.

The elephants strayed into the densely populated areas after crossing the National Highway, Bharathapuzha river and railway lines in many parts, they said.

Wildlife officials have been deployed in large numbers in the areas where the animals had been spotted.

Alerts have been issued to the public to confine themselves in their homes and not to assemble in large numbers near the elephants and provoke them.

The forest department also sought the help of trained persons to drive the pachyderms back to the forest.

Animal rights campaigner V K Venkatachalam said the forest officials should have driven the elephants back to the same forest where they came from.

"The elephants might have come out of the forest in search of food and water and they might have lost their way back to the forest. Though three elephants were spotted earlier, the calf among them is said to be missing now," he said.

He also said the increasing presence of settlers in forest fringe areas acts as a blockade for wild elephants to go back to the forest.

"This incident highlights the urgent need to educate the forest department officials to use proper and scientific means of redirecting the path of movement of wild elephants, entering into human inhabited areas to their original path towards forest elephant corridors," he added.

(With inputs from PTI)

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