Tusker enters Mahuadanr, QRT avoids human animal conflict
PNS
DALTONGANJ
Quick response team of the Palamu tiger reserve averted human elephant conflict in the market areas of the tribal heartland Mahuadanr where a tusker entered the town area around 2am night Thursday, said sources.
The tusker’s post mid night sneaking into the town area of Mahuadanr caught many off their sleep as said the forester incharge Gurudayal Singh “Someone in the town locality of Mahuadanr phoned us around 2am Thursday night about a tusker roaming around.”
“We immediately asked the caller to remain indoors and keep neighbours and friends informed about the same precaution” added the forester incharge.
Sources said the imminence of human elephant conflict was aborted as locals kept indoors.
The tusker, also finding no noise and mobbing of it by people because of the very odd time, 2am, took the jungle route to Douna.
However, the tusker on retreat, caused mild damage to a tin shed across a business establishment in the town areas of Mahuadanr.
The tusker took a toll of one healthy ox at Bel Tola of the village Rajdanda. Kumar Ashish, deputy director south division, PTR, said, “The ox was a tied stall one and so it couldn’t run for life.”
The tusker pierced its tusk into the body of the ox making a long and deep wound which caused huge bleeding leading to the fatality of the ox, added the PTR officer Ashish Kumar.
The ox belonged to a farmer Isdaur Tirkey. He would be compensated for the loss of his ox as per the provision of the state forest environment and climate change department of the state government, said PTR sources.
The compensation amount is in the range of 16,000 rupees to 30,000 rupees depending on the dairy value of the livestock so killed by wildlife.
