R.I.P. Krishna: Elephant with legs tied-up for a week so he couldn’t escape dies in captivity
Although the cause of the elephant's death is unclear, he was 'kept with his legs tied so that he couldn’t escape,' said a park ranger, who asked to remain anonymous.
AFP: ‘A male elephant nicknamed “Laden” was tracked for days by forestry officers and tranquillised on Monday after a deadly October rampage killed five villagers in Goalpara, in the northeastern state of Assam. It was renamed after the Hindu god Krishna and moved to Assam’s Orang National Park where officials planned to teach it to patrol wildlife parks and sanctuaries in the state.
“The animal was behaving as normal. He was, however, kept with his legs tied so that he couldn’t escape,” said a park ranger, who asked to remain anonymous… The cause of death was unclear, but a senior official said the state government had sent a team of veterinary surgeons to carry out an autopsy…
Before the creature’s death, the forestry department planned to tame it using “kraak” – a controversial training regime used on younger elephants and condemned by wildlife conservationists as torture. The animal was unsuitable for captivity because it was believed to be about 35 years old, conservationists said…
Nearly 2,300 people have been killed by elephants in India over the last five years, according to official figures released in June. But 700 of the creatures have been killed since 2011, officials said, partly as a result of shrinking natural habitats… Many have been poisoned or shot by locals, or died on electric fences and railways cutting through migration routes’. SOURCE…
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