Elephant taken from Assam to Tamil Nadu : Elephant torture

Elephant torture

GUWAHATI: The Assam government on Wednesday said it has learned through media reports that an elephant taken from here to Tamil Nadu, more than a decade ago, was tortured in the southern state.
While a high-level team from the state government has been camping in Tamil Nadu since earlier this month regarding the elephant, according to media reports, pachyderm, Joymala, is now in a healthy condition.
Answering a question by AIUDF legislator Ashraful Hussain in the Assembly, Environment and Forests Minister Chandramohan Patwari said the elephant was taken to Tamil Nadu in 2011 with the consent of both the states.

The minister said the elephant is yet to be brought back to the northeastern state after Elephant torture.

After learning about Joymala’s torture through media reports, Patwari said his department had sent a letter to the Tamil Nadu government on March 8 in this regard.
However, he did not clarify whether any response had been received.

Patwari said a high-level team from the Assam government is camping in Tamil Nadu from September 2.
In the same reply, the minister also said that 69 animals have been transferred to other states in the last 10 years, while Assam has received 77 animals during the same period.

The northeastern state received four white-winged wood ducks from the Czech Republic in 2022.