Jumbo trio give sleepless nights to officers, farmers
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Efforts to drive them again into forests go in useless.
A 3-member herd of untamed elephants, which crossed into Chittoor district from Tamil Nadu three weeks in the past, is now lingering at a denuded forest stretch between Vadamalapeta and Tirupati, giving sleepless nights to farmers and forest officers.
The elephant herd, recognized in native circles because the ‘Bachelor’s Group’, is now over 150 km away from its habitat in Tamil Nadu. Forest officers tried in useless to drive the herd again into the forests when it entered the outskirts of Chittoor municipality. The herd continued to advance in the direction of the japanese mandals with poor forest cowl, scattered amidst agriculture fields and villages. For the final one week, the herd continues to keep put at Karveti Nagaram vary.
As the potential of driving the pachyderms again into their forests in the direction of Koundinya wildlife sanctuary is now distant, because the herd has coated a distance of over 150 km, officers are of the view that the herd can now be diverted into the close by Seshachalam hill vary, 30 km from Vadamalapeta mandal, which is the place the herd is presently situated.
The herd’s motion in the direction of the Seshachalam ranges would pose a excessive danger because the terrain is a sparse jungle, interspersed with a lot of villages and huge stretches of agriculture lands.
Forest Range Officer (Karveti Nagaram) Sivanna stated that on Saturday night, the herd was briefly pushed right into a jungle, adjoining the Gulluru waterbody, close to Puttur. As the presence of untamed elephants within the plains of Puttur and Vadamalapeta area was by no means heard of earlier than, it led to stress amongst farmers engaged in farm exercise put up rains.
