Alipurduar, Dec. 7: Four persons had to spend around five hours on the roof of a building last night when around 25 elephants rampaged through a village outside Jaldapara forest.
The marauding animals also damaged a watchtower, food stall and dish antennas of a private resort at Madarihat.
STATING that the future of elephants in the country looked bleak as there are only 800 tuskers left when compared to the 24,200 fe males of its species, putting in jeopardy the reproduction cycle of the pachyderms students of Kendriya Vidya laya, Annanagar impressed upon visitors at an exhibi tion on biodiversity held in the city the need to save In dia's national heritage ani mal.
The death of a tiger last month, two and a half years after it was brought to Sariska, proves the National Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan is not safe for the big cat. The death also brought to light little action has been taken on the recommendations of the Tiger Task Force, set up in 2005 to look at tiger conservation in the country. That was the year when Sariska lost all its tigers.
