WILD ELEPHANTS SAVING BY ELEPHANT SHOW
Nowadays only 4 % of the Indian surface is suitable for wild elephants; the decline is mainly due to the destruction of the forest habitats to make place for agriculture, cities, villages and the related infrastructures and hydrothermal plans
Poaching with ivory as the goal is still an item but is not the major reason of the killing of wild elephants. Villagers and tribal are increasingly encroaching in on forest land, forcing wild elephants to come closer and closer into the villages, killing over 100 people each year just by simple walking over them.
The villager’s tactics is to make fences from electric pylons all around the village. Instead of using a low power high voltage electrical fence has used in the west for keeping the cattle in the parks, they use the full 220 V, I assume with a rupee coin as fuse. This is not only extremely dangerous for their compatriots but for all other animals.
A dozen of elephants have been killed in the last few years, conservationist says.
Manindra Biswas postulate: “ The objective of using trained Elephants to simulate electrocutation scenarios is to generate sympathy for their wild friends.
The play open with six elephants looking tense after sniffing gunfire. One elephant walks up to the electrical wire, touches and crumples into a miserable heap. This starring role is played by Mainak the most talented elephant of the crew. Than the five elephants desperately try to revive their fallen hero and have the final act the crew salute their lost friends and walk away slowly and desperately with (crocodile?) tears in their eyes.
Hundreds of villagers have enjoyed the free play and understand without any dougt the moral of the story. An we all hope it helps, although I have the impression that is would be better to explain to these villagers and tribal how a real electrical cattle fence is build up by using a transformer and a big condenser in a way that all animals get only frightened but not killed. The actual situation is that from 50,000 wild elephants a century ago the population dropped now to 21,000 all mainly living in reserves.
Poaching with ivory as the goal is still an item but is not the major reason of the killing of wild elephants. Villagers and tribal are increasingly encroaching in on forest land, forcing wild elephants to come closer and closer into the villages, killing over 100 people each year just by simple walking over them.
The villager’s tactics is to make fences from electric pylons all around the village. Instead of using a low power high voltage electrical fence has used in the west for keeping the cattle in the parks, they use the full 220 V, I assume with a rupee coin as fuse. This is not only extremely dangerous for their compatriots but for all other animals.
A dozen of elephants have been killed in the last few years, conservationist says.
Manindra Biswas postulate: “ The objective of using trained Elephants to simulate electrocutation scenarios is to generate sympathy for their wild friends.
The play open with six elephants looking tense after sniffing gunfire. One elephant walks up to the electrical wire, touches and crumples into a miserable heap. This starring role is played by Mainak the most talented elephant of the crew. Than the five elephants desperately try to revive their fallen hero and have the final act the crew salute their lost friends and walk away slowly and desperately with (crocodile?) tears in their eyes.
Hundreds of villagers have enjoyed the free play and understand without any dougt the moral of the story. An we all hope it helps, although I have the impression that is would be better to explain to these villagers and tribal how a real electrical cattle fence is build up by using a transformer and a big condenser in a way that all animals get only frightened but not killed. The actual situation is that from 50,000 wild elephants a century ago the population dropped now to 21,000 all mainly living in reserves.
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