The Forest Department staff successfully fixed radio collars on two female wild elephants on Monday, November 27. Meanwhile, the radio collar fixed to another female elephant earlier fell off.
The department is conducting an operation in parts of Belur in Hassan to radio-collar nine elephants and capture five trouble-causing elephants. The team, which includes senior officers, veterinarians, watchers, guards, and caretakers of elephants, succeeded in capturing two female elephants near Madaghatta and fixing radio collars.
D. Mohan Kumar, Deputy Conservator of Forests, told The Hindu that on the first day of the operation, it was radio-collared successfully. “Somehow the radio collar fell off the animal. The instrument was found, and the same had been fixed on another animal,” he said.
