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Animal Ambulance for Elephants in Tamilnadu for the first time in India
October 31 , 2017
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- A specially designed hydraulic wildlife ambulance with medical facilities has been introduced at the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) to rescue and provide the treatment for the wild animals including harmed elephants and to maintain the safe passage of elephants.
- Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) has so many elephants. In recent times, the elephants, which are damaging the crops by entering into the villages after exiting the forests due to severe water deficit in the forests, are creating fears among the village people by staying in the same region.
- Moreover there are more human losses due to Man – Animal conflict when the elephants are trailing. In some cases, the forest authorities are chasing the elephants, which have camped in the villages, by augmenting Kumki elephants.
- Apart from these, many animals have lost their life like animals stranded in the slushy water, diseased elephants, and the elephants, which are leaving the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) due to lack of food and fodder, in the absence of vehicles to rescue and provide the treatment.
- To prevent these type of loss of lives of animal, A specially designed hydraulic wildlife ambulance for the rescue of wildlife animals have been introduced in the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR).
- This is the first time in India, an ambulance vehicle for the elephants. The forest authorities can monitor the movements of animals by putting this vehicle in the deep forest.
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