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National Green Tribunal Takes Suo Motu Cognizance of Death of Pregnant Elephant in Kerala

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The National Green Tribunal, Southern Zone, Chennai has taken suo motu cognizance of the death of a pregnant elephant in Kerala’s Palakkad city on May 27 after she consumed a pineapple loaded with explosives.

NGT has also issued notice to the Central Government and the Kerala Government in this matter.

The bench comprising of Justice K. Ramakrishnan & Saibal Dasgupta, Expert Member said that the instant suo moto case been registered for the purpose of taking an effort to avoid such things in future and also for providing some long term strategy to minimize man-animal conflict in wild life area or fringe village adjoining the forest area.

Further the bench recorded,” “It is alleged in the report that a pregnant wild elephant in Silent Valley Forest had fallen victim to an act of human act of using explosive substance kept in a Pineapple which was consumed inadvertently by the wild elephant and which resulted in the death of the pregnant wild elephant and the fetus was also damaged on account of the same and the young one died without seeing the light of the day.”

The NGT appointed a joint committee of senior conservator of forest, a Senior officer from Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, a divisional Forest Officer of Mannarkkad and Punalur and the District Collector, Palakad. The Committee shall submit a factual and action taken report, as well as a long term management, plan to avoid such recurrences in future, within one month.

“If there is already any such scheme, what is the stage of the implementation and how effectively it is being done and whether any further improvement will have to be made in the scheme for this purpose to avoid such tragedies and submit a report along with their suggestions and recommendations..”, NGT has ordered.

The matter would be heard next on July 10.

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