Dak Lak people feel both worried and glad when seeing wild elephants inthe areas near their residential quarters. This means that the wildelephant populations there have been growing well. Vietnam Net reports.
Two herds of wild elephants with some 25 individualsregularly turned up in the areas near the residential quarters in DakLak and Dak Nong in recent days to look for food.
OnOctober 10, about 20 elephants were seen entering Hamlet N°6 in Ea Suptown to seek food. Local people then tried to drive them away. However,the elephants were stubborn and came back in the next days.
The tools that create sounds and fire could not frighten wildelephants any more. Therefore, it took local people five nights to drivethe elephants back to the forest.
However, HuynhTrung Luan, Director of the Dak Lak provincial elephant conservationcentre, thinks the elephants would come back.
“Hamlet N°6 is close to the forest, where there are many kinds of trees favoured by elephants,” he explained.
In September 2013, the elephants once came to Hamlet N°5 in Ea Suptown and destroyed crops. A report by the Ea Sup district people’sshowed that during their “visits” to the hamlets, they damaged 20hectares of crops.
Nguyen Minh Khoi, a localresident living in the area for 20 years, said he has never seen suchfurious elephants. “They destroyed 720 square meters of rice fields inSeptember and they damaged the remaining some days ago,” he complained.
“We tried every method to drive them away, but they were very dogged.”
While the people in Ea Sup town live in a constant anxiety that thewild elephants would come back to destroy crops, the people in Cu Jutdistrict of Dak Nong province spend sleepless nights trying to drive twowild elephants which first appeared in March 2013 and have come backover the last month to look for food.
According toTran Van Thanh, Chairman of Dak Drong commune People’s Committee, twohouses, seven watch towers in the fields and tens of hectares of cropshave been damaged by the elephants.
Local peoplehave been told to take manual and simple measures to drive the elephantsaway. If necessary, bred elephants would be mobilised to help.
According to Luan, there was a baby elephant in the herd whichappeared some days ago in Ea Sup. He said the herd has well balancedstructure, which included male and female elephants, adults,2-3-year-old elephants and new born.
The new bornelephant, less than 100 kilos in weight, has turned up for the firsttime. This is really the good news for the elephant conservation centrein Dak Lak, because this shows the development of the wild elephants.
However, Luan has expressed his worry that theelephants may be harmed because they try to damage the crops. It wouldbe really dangerous for people if they meet elephants, because theelephants are very furious.
The project on elephantconservation in Dak Lak, which was approved by competent agencies manyyears ago, reportedly lacks money to run. The budget for 2014 has notbeen allocated yet.-VNA
Two herds of wild elephants with some 25 individualsregularly turned up in the areas near the residential quarters in DakLak and Dak Nong in recent days to look for food.
OnOctober 10, about 20 elephants were seen entering Hamlet N°6 in Ea Suptown to seek food. Local people then tried to drive them away. However,the elephants were stubborn and came back in the next days.
The tools that create sounds and fire could not frighten wildelephants any more. Therefore, it took local people five nights to drivethe elephants back to the forest.
However, HuynhTrung Luan, Director of the Dak Lak provincial elephant conservationcentre, thinks the elephants would come back.
“Hamlet N°6 is close to the forest, where there are many kinds of trees favoured by elephants,” he explained.
In September 2013, the elephants once came to Hamlet N°5 in Ea Suptown and destroyed crops. A report by the Ea Sup district people’sshowed that during their “visits” to the hamlets, they damaged 20hectares of crops.
Nguyen Minh Khoi, a localresident living in the area for 20 years, said he has never seen suchfurious elephants. “They destroyed 720 square meters of rice fields inSeptember and they damaged the remaining some days ago,” he complained.
“We tried every method to drive them away, but they were very dogged.”
While the people in Ea Sup town live in a constant anxiety that thewild elephants would come back to destroy crops, the people in Cu Jutdistrict of Dak Nong province spend sleepless nights trying to drive twowild elephants which first appeared in March 2013 and have come backover the last month to look for food.
According toTran Van Thanh, Chairman of Dak Drong commune People’s Committee, twohouses, seven watch towers in the fields and tens of hectares of cropshave been damaged by the elephants.
Local peoplehave been told to take manual and simple measures to drive the elephantsaway. If necessary, bred elephants would be mobilised to help.
According to Luan, there was a baby elephant in the herd whichappeared some days ago in Ea Sup. He said the herd has well balancedstructure, which included male and female elephants, adults,2-3-year-old elephants and new born.
The new bornelephant, less than 100 kilos in weight, has turned up for the firsttime. This is really the good news for the elephant conservation centrein Dak Lak, because this shows the development of the wild elephants.
However, Luan has expressed his worry that theelephants may be harmed because they try to damage the crops. It wouldbe really dangerous for people if they meet elephants, because theelephants are very furious.
The project on elephantconservation in Dak Lak, which was approved by competent agencies manyyears ago, reportedly lacks money to run. The budget for 2014 has notbeen allocated yet.-VNA
