Six kumkis deployed to sort out wild elephants in Keeramanda, Kodalamadugu villages

The Chittoor west division forest authorities have pressed into motion a batch of six skilled elephants also referred to as kumkis, to sort out the crop-raiding wild elephants, at forested villages of Keeramanda and Kodalamadugu in Bangarupalem mandal on Thursday evening.

The kumki squad has Deva, Rajan, Abhimanyu, and Krishna from Karnataka, together with the home duo Vinayak and Jayanth from Naniyala elephant camp at Ramakuppam.

Senior forest officers stated that in response to the grievances of the farmers of the forested villages about frequent elephant raids in and across the Koundinya wildlife sanctuary belt, the particular kumki drive was launched with 12 mahouts and 40 personnel, together with forest watchers and elephant trackers. The particular drive adopted a trial run in Palamaner vary a couple of days in the past.

The officers performed a take a look at drive operation on August 1 in Palamaner division with the assistance of three kumkis, Krishna (from Karnataka), Jayanth, and Vinayak (native). At Tekumanda village, extremely weak to the motion of untamed elephants, the skilled batch intercepted a wild herd of eight elephants and chased them to their habitat in direction of Tamil Nadu.

“With six kumkis at our disposal, we’re extremely assured of attaining any difficult state of affairs involving wild elephants throughout the Koundinya sanctuary and stopping their motion in direction of far-off mandals in Chittoor and neighbouring Annamayya and Tirupati districts,” stated a senior forest official.

It could also be talked about right here {that a} squad of 4 skilled elephants from the Karnataka forest division reached Chittoor district on May 21 and underwent a month-long coaching at a forest camp in Palamaner limits. A crew of mahouts from Karnataka skilled the native handlers.