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Mammoth effort to save flood-stranded elephant

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Mammoth effort to save flood-stranded elephant
Dhaka - Arab Today

Huge crowds of villagers following a wild elephant stranded in Bangladesh for more than a month by floods are hampering efforts to rescue it, forest officials said Saturday.
Severe floods in the northeastern Indian state of Assam separated the four-ton female elephant from its herd as strong currents in the Brahmaputra river washed it across the border to northern Bangladesh late June.
This week Indian wildlife officials traveled to Bangladesh to join local forest rangers and vets to rescue the animal, which is now struggling to stand on its feet after a journey of more than 100 kilometers (60 miles).
“It’s now standing in a five-feet flood water in Jamalpur district. It is extremely weak. There are more than 10,000 people watching her from a close distance,” Bangladeshi vet Sayed Hossain told AFP.
Hossain said the crowd was hampering its efforts to reach higher ground as “thousands of villagers have been constantly following the animal,” even at night.
Forest official Tapan Kumar Dey told AFP a team had brought a dart gun, crane and lorry to carry the animal once it reaches dry ground and can be tranquilized — but the operation cannot be carried out while the elephant is in water.
“Her condition is very bad. Last night it traveled 12 kilometers, but it mostly avoided dry ground because of presence of so many people,” Dey said.
A trained elephant was being brought to the scene in a desperate attempt to lure the wild animal away from the water.
“It is so weak that it can’t even lift its trunk. You can see her ribs from a distance,” Ritesh Bhattacharjee, a visiting Indian forest official, told AFP.
The rescue bid comes days after Indian wildlife officers appealed for help in caring for eight rhino calves pulled from the floodwaters in Assam.
Scores of people die every year from flooding and landslides during the monsoon rains in India and neighboring Nepal and Bangladesh.
So far this year 96 people have died in the worst-hit Indian states of Assam and Bihar while 41 people have died in downstream Bangladesh.

Source: Arab News

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