The urbanization is demanding its pound of flesh and getting the whole body.The Save Forest,Save Environment are simply signs and hoardings to put because they look nice and give us a false high that we are doing something for the animals which are loosing their habitat and lives because we have to live.

Six wild elephants tuskers included have lost their lives in past two weeks in in Champua and Serenda in Ghatgaon forest. Another one died in Narsinghpur in Madhya Pradesh.

The tragic part is one died because it came in contact with 11KV live wire. Another one was a friendly animal, it just used to come to the highway and used to take things from the parked trucks, like banana, or other eatables without looking or harming anyone. It could have been trained but someone obviously thought that a dead elephant is much better than a friendly one. It died under mysterious conditions.

The tragic death of another injured elephant is really heart rending. It used to lift up its injured leg as if to show the injury to everyone and mutely expected with a touching confidence that the Humans will help her, it was not to be.

The forest Department obviously is not doing its job properly because some elephants suffered for days before they died and there was no help coming from the Forest Department. They just attributed her death due to old age and anemia or any other reason.

The State has lost 164 elephants from 2002 to 2007 out of which 41 were died due to the Live electric wire and 26 all tuskers were poached. The male elephant population stands at 387 and as per Government statistics the total population of pachyderms is 1862 highest in Central India.

The Government has very ridiculous and impractical plans to reduce man and animal conflict, they are asking farmers to grow crops not savored by elephants instead of rice, the staple diet of the states’ population. Instead of defining an elephant corridor and reducing human encroachment of forests.

The majestic yet poor elephant will be soon on the endangered list, just because we humans were greedy or simply indifferent to its plight.