Elephant calf rescued and released
Bokakhat, Assam: The morning dew had rendered the ground at Borsapori tea estate with slippery earth and treacherous trenches. On that fateful day, an elephant calf was found trapped in one of the trenches of the tea estate. According to Anjan Talukdar, wildlife veterinarian at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) Kaziranga, the divisional forest office at Bokakhat had informed CWRC about the trapped elephant. The deep trenches that served as irrigation canals and as estate boundaries are now posing a biggest threat to unsuspecting visitors and particularly the elephants. Consequently, a team of forest officials and staff at CWRC had rushed to the spot for rescue. The two-year-old elephant calf was found in a state of trauma. |