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Monday, Jun 30, 2025
The back-to-back wild attacks have triggered much panic among the local people, urging them to hold multiple protests and demonstrations across the district.
Locals, reeling under the impact of wildlife encroachment, are staging protests that transcend political affiliations.
The meeting also cleared the forest department's proposal to purchase drones as well as wireless communication devices for tracking and surveillance of wild animals.
Manorama News reported that the forest department sources tracked the elephant near the Chembakapadi region of the forest.
The trackers are trying to scare away the other Makhna using crackers but the elephant being roguish in its behaviour often charges towards the source of fire crackers
Around six villages including Alathur, Surabhikavala, Sasimala ,Mullankolly villages in the region are gripped by the tiger scare.
The incident took place near the residence of Ajeesh, who was trampled to death by a wild elephant recently.
Efforts are in process to safely extricate the animal from the wire that has become entangled around its neck and to shift it safely to a cage.
While the RRT could track the signals from the radio collar, the elephant kept shifting its location.
Farmers Relief Forum (FRF), a farmers’ outfit in Wayanad, called for a ‘hartal’ by conscience in Wayanad on Tuesday in protest against the failure of the forest department and the state government to protect the farmers of the district.
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