Coimbatore: Wildlife NGOs have decided to appeal to the Bar Association of Coimbatore to not appear on behalf of the two men arrested for throwing a burning tyre to chase away a 40-year-old elephant, which died in Masinagudi last week. They also plan to appeal to the Coimbatore and Nilgiris collectors, and forest department officials, to take stringent action against the accused.
As many as 30 members of wildlife NGOs in the region met at Podanur to remember the two tuskers — in Nilgiris and Bouluvampatti range — that lost their lives, and to discuss ways to prevent such incidents. “Stringent action should be taken against the two accused in the Nilgiris tusker case as a deterrent to others from committing such heinous crimes,” N I Jalaluddin of Nature Conservation Society said.
The NGOs also discussed about extending voluntary on-ground support to prevent unnatural death of elephants.
Elephant corridors should be protected to bring down the human-elephant conflict, they said.