Mysuru: An elephant has lost its life near the railway track fence in Veeranahosahalli forest area under Nagarahole National Park limits. The incident occurred on Saturday, December 15 morning, in Hunsur Taluk.
ACF S R Prasanna Kumar said, “Three elephants had strayed into the villages on the fringes of Veeranahosahalli on Friday night. The Forest Department personnel had driven them back into the forests. However, one of them, a tusker aged 42 years, had not returned. It was returning to the forest on Saturday, during the wee hours, from Veeranahosahalli village, when it tried to cross over the railway track fence and got trapped in the middle.”
During the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee meeting in Chamarajanagar, on December 1, MP R Dhruvanarayan had directed the Forest Department officials to construct railway track fence to prevent elephants from straying into human habitat.
The railway track fence introduced by the Forest Department a few years ago as a solution to the problem of elephants straying into human habitats has proven fatal for the animals.
Officials said that the elephant which lost its life in the railway fence was an identified rogue elephant and it would often raid human habitats.
The officials added that the elephant had tried to cross over the fence near the official quarters of the RFO in the forest though the gates leading to the forest which had been kept open.
