M F AHMAD
Daltonganj, Feb 25: A four-member team of the Ambikapur Elephant Reserve in Chhattisgarh has arrived in the Palamu Tiger Reserve for doing a recce.
The team consists of one biologist and three trackers.
Deputy Director (South division) Mukesh Kumar of PTR has confirmed the arrival of this team in the Garu west range of the tiger reserve.
“A few months back, we had discovered a limping tusker in our PTR. It had a right forelimb injury rendering it limp. The tusker is alive and kicking but its wound is still there,” Mukesh said.
“We want to treat him and so the 4-member team has been called in from the elephant reserve of Chhattisgarh,” he added.
Mukesh Kumar further said that the team will study how to tame this wild elephant for sedation.
There is a proposal to bring in two trained elephants from the Ambikapur elephant reserve which will corner our ailing elephant for its sedation.
Trained elephants overpower such wild elephants with precision and minimum risks.
Earlier, a team from West Bengal had come to tranquilize this sick elephant but it went in vain.
The Ambikapur elephant reserve team will study all aspects before it comes here again with two of their trained elephants to befriend this ailing PTR elephant for its sedation and treatment then.
Meanwhile, Mukesh Kumar is in Rajasthan today, on his way to the Sariska tiger reserve there.
He along with the Deputy Director (North division) Kumar Ashish has gone there regarding the translocation of tigers and to learn the challenges involved in the process.
