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Ram's (Rojan) smile says it all. As I briefly posted lasted night the big bull elephant came into our area, there was a quick appraisal of the situation, the call was made to send out the mass SMS to the group on Manju's (Anjel) phone... and within seconds virtually the whole village was alerted to the situation. There were then SMS and phone calls with questions and thanks, people were happy we had things moving.
There's a bit of refining to be done so that all the parties that need to be involved are on the same page, that includes the army, park authorities and the Rapid Response Team (RRT). Nirajan had the RRT mobilized quickly, the army were already on their way and in the end the situation was neutralized after a fair amount of early fear especially at the Hatisar which backs onto where I sleep.
As I've mentioned before there are cross over dynamics with the conflicts between humans and two main species involved, elephants and leopards but there are also considerable fundamental differences, something I'll write about soon. I'm coming into a critical two month period with the leopard rehab, the floods have upset things and today was difficult. One of the biggest factors in this is the huge amount of loyalty to elephants compared to leopards, there's some obvious reasons why but also some darker ones. More on that soon...
There's a bit of refining to be done so that all the parties that need to be involved are on the same page, that includes the army, park authorities and the Rapid Response Team (RRT). Nirajan had the RRT mobilized quickly, the army were already on their way and in the end the situation was neutralized after a fair amount of early fear especially at the Hatisar which backs onto where I sleep.
As I've mentioned before there are cross over dynamics with the conflicts between humans and two main species involved, elephants and leopards but there are also considerable fundamental differences, something I'll write about soon. I'm coming into a critical two month period with the leopard rehab, the floods have upset things and today was difficult. One of the biggest factors in this is the huge amount of loyalty to elephants compared to leopards, there's some obvious reasons why but also some darker ones. More on that soon...
