Kumki elephants on the way to the persecution of wild tuskers from the fields under the Palamaner series of the Chittoor district. | Photo Credit: By Agreement
The forest authorities of the Chittoor West Forest Division were also promoted in an action at a dose of six trained elephants also known as Kumkis, to deal with wild elephants on Thursday evening, dealing with wooded elephants.
Squad Kumki has Deva, Rajan, Abhimanya and Krishna of Karnataka along with the home duo Vinayak and Jayanth of the Naniyal Elephant camp in Ramakappam.
Forest officials said that in response to the complaints of farmers’ forest villages on frequent elephants in the area and around the Koundinya Wildlife Belt Sanctuary Belt, a special Kumki Drive with 12 mahouts and 40 employees, including forest observers and elephant followers. The special drive watched a test run in the Palamaner series a few days ago.
Officials performed an operation of a test drive 1. In the village of Tekumand, highly vulnerable to the movement of wild elephants, the trained dose captured the wild herd of eight elephants and chased them to their habitat towards Tamil Nadu.
“We are very sure with the six Kumkis available to achieve any complicated situation concerning wild elephants across the Sanctuary Koundinya and preventing them from moving towards distant mandals in Chittoor and neighboring district Annamayya and Tirupati,” said the head of the forest clerk.
Here it can be mentioned that a group of four trained elephants from the Karnataka Forest Department reached 21 May in the Chittoor district and underwent lunar training in the Palamaner forest camp. The Mahout team from Karnataka trained local handlers.
Published – August 8, 2025 20:41 IS IS
