FW: Quick petition -INDIAN ELEPHANT TORTURED AND KILLED - This is such a shocking case .. please circulate FAR AND WIDE !

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" Mary Alice " <moonflower.uk

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:47:38 -0000

" Animal Advocates " <animalsadvocates >

Quick petition -INDIAN ELEPHANT TORTURED AND KILLED - This is

such a shocking case .. please circulate FAR AND WIDE !

 

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION HERE - and forward ON ! ! !

 

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/149004418

 

THE DETAILS BELOW ARE PRETTY GRAPHIC ... IF YOU ARE NOT UP TO READING IT -

PLEASE JUST TRUST ME WHEN I SAY IT DESERVES OUR STRONGEST SUPPORT ... AND

SIGN IT BEFORE YOU PASS IT ON.

 

 

The Shame of Project Elephant

Government of India

Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) V S Silekar

Ministry of Environment and Forests Shri D.D. Verma

Joint Secretary (PG)

4th Floor

Paryawaran Bhawan, CGO Complex

Lodi Road, New Delhi- 110003 INDIA

Email: secy

 

On February 5th, 2003, In the densely forested region of India known as

Chattisgarh, A wild young male elephant was targeted and chased by a group

of men employed and directed by Parbati Baruah and her husband, SS Bisht

who, for over the last 10 years, receive funds by the Indian government to

manage Elephant herds throughout the country under the name Project

Elephant. For over two months, Parbati Baruah and her crew tried

unsuccessfully to capture stray elephants in the surrounding area to satisfy

the latest request by the Indian government who were concerned about the

threat of property and agricultural damage and the increasing numbers of

human-animal conflicts that had occurred in the past 6 months in the

surrounding areas.

 

The bewildered elephant was shot with a tranquilizer gun and its head was

tightly bound by thick rope to prevent movement. The animals' legs were

drawn and quartered and tied to trees. As he screamed, his tusks were cut

off with hacksaws. Still alive, he struggled in vain but was left unable to

free himself from the thick ropes that had now cut into his skin. For the

next eighteen days, he suffered from his injuries and without food or water

until he died. This gruesome incident was captured on film by Mike Pandey

and his crew who were working on a research project also commissioned by the

Indian government. The footage has being distributed to gain support in

lobbying the Indian parliament to instate humane elephant relocation and

transition methods in addition to conducting an investigation in the

horrific torture and death of this Elephant.

 

Project Elephant was initially created in 1992 by the government of India to

conserve and protect Elephant populations throughout India by providing

education ,monitoring & communication equipment to forest department

employees, provide veterinary medicine and training facilities, establish

anti poaching regimes , develop corridors for safe migratory passage ,

implement habitat preservation and relocation assignments However, despite

the projected intentions, corrupt leadership and mismanagement has replaced

any hope of success or accomplishment with accounts of severe torture and

death by the use of inhumane methods of capture known as mela shikar or

Kheda by the very people who were appointed to protect this species over a

decade ago.

 

By signing this petition you are supporting the efforts of The International

Fund for Animal Welfare www.IFAW.org in association with The Wildlife Trust

of India www.wti.org who are asking for the immediate suspension of duties

and elephant captures by Ms. Parbati Baruah and her husband, SS Bisht,

director of Project Elephant.

 

We, the undersigned are petitioning the Ministry of Forests and the Indian

Government to implement an immediate revocation of title, authority and

funding from Ms. Parbati and her husband, SS Bisht for their direct

involvement in the inhumane capture and subsequent torture and death of a

young male bull elephant in Chattisgarh that occurred in February, 2003. We

are asking that until humane methods used to restrain and capture Elephants

can be demonstrated and employed by qualified highly trained personnel that

all Elephant captures are suspended by Project Elephant.

 

cc: Shri Alok, Director of Grievances

Reforms and Public Grievances,

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances

And Pensions,

Government of India,

Sardar Patel Bhavan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi -110 001.

Tel :011-91-11- 336 2325

FAX : 011-91-11- 374 2133

e-mail : alok

 

 

 

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