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Coimbatore: As many as 20 elephants in the Kozhikamuthi elephant camp of the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) were adorned with garlands on Friday to celebrate the Pongal festival.
The forest department decided to curtail elephant Pongal celebrations this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, sources said.. Only 100 people were allowed to visit the elephant camp.
The visitors were screened at the Sethumadai forest check post. “We checked their temperature and gave them hand sanitizers. Fifty-six-year-old kumki Kaleem led the elephant Pongal,” said E Prasanth, assistant conservator of forests.
The visitors were not allowed near the elephants, which were given sweet pongal, sugarcane and coconuts. “The main attraction was Chinna Thambi, the crop raider, who was captured in 2019. However, Arisi Raja was kept in the Varakaliyar elephant camp,” the official said.
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COIMBATORE: The forest department arrested an anti-poaching watcher and five others at Pollachi on Tuesday for attempting to sell a pair of tusks.
After receiving a tip from Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) that tusks were sold at a pet shop in NM Sungam, Pollachi, two teams of the forest department and WCCB officials visited the shop around 8pm on Tuesday, a forest official said.
Posing as customers from Kerala, officials inquired about tusks. When shopowner P Manikandan feigned ignorance, officials said that they had purchased tusks from him before. When the owner acknowledged the claim, officials requested him to present the tusks to verify their authenticity. As soon as tusks were presented, officials seized them and detained Manikandan, the forest official added.