Guest guest Posted April 2, 2003 Report Share Posted April 2, 2003 " Helena Harrington " <e.maximus1 - " Melissa Groo " <melgroo Tuesday, April 01, 2003 12:30 AM Probe ordered into elephant's death > Melissa Groo > Save the Elephants News Service Researcher > melgroo > ----- > Probe ordered into elephant's death > March 29, 2003 > The Hindu > By Aarti Dhar > > NEW DELHI The Ministry of Environment and Forests has ordered an enquiry > into the death of an elephant last month after it was captured in the > Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh. > > A three-member committee of experts will probe the circumstances that caused > the death and also study how appropriate are the techniques adopted for the > capture and training of the animal. > > The committee will ascertain whether there had been a lapse on the part of > any authority or persons and if irregularities had been committed. It will > also suggest steps to avoid such incidents. The decision to institute the > enquiry was taken by the Environment Minister, T.R. Baalu. > > Headed by the former Additional Director-General of Forests (Wildlife), the > committee will have the veterinary officer of the National Zoological Park > in Delhi, N. Panneer Selvam, and Director-incharge of the Dehradun-based > Wildlife Institute of India, S. Singsit, as members. It will submit its > report within a month. > > The wild tusker died on February 24. It was captured by Parbati Barua, a > mahout, in the forests of Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh on February 2. > > The mahout has come under a lot of criticism from environmentalists, > including the former Union Minister, Maneka Gandhi, for using obsolete and > torturous methods to capture and tame the elephant. > > The project was terminated following the death of the pachyderm. Ms. Barua, > who had been given the task of capturing and taming wild elephants that had > killed about a dozen people in Chhattisgarh, has written to the Environment > Ministry seeking its intervention in the matter to `stop injustice and > harassment' being meted out to her in the form of false complaints and > notices of prosecution. > > She says the elephant died because of an injury caused by a dart that was > unprofessionally used to tranquillise it. The injury became incurable and > ultimately led to its death. > > ----- > For further information on elephants please see Save the Elephants' web site > at http://www.savetheelephants.org > > > > > > > _______________ > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > _______________ MSN Instant Messenger now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_messenger.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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