Staff Reporter :The physical condition of the stranded wild elephant is being deteriorated gradually as the authority concerned is failing to reach the mammoth with sufficient foods. “The wild elephant’s life is now in danger as we failed to supply foods to it,” wildlife inspector of the Bangladesh Forest Department Ashim Kumar Mallick on Monday said.He said as insufficient foods are being supplied to the elephant, it is becoming weak day by day. “We are also keeping the elephant wet so that she can cope with the heat,” he said.”We were planning to escort the elephant with the help of three other elephants brought from Bangabandhu Safari Park in Gazipur. But these elephants have not come here till Monday,” he said. Meanwhile, the elephant recently rescued and named as Bangabahadur, was not transported to Bangabandhu Safari Park in Gazipur yesterday as it was expected.On the other hand, the forest department is confused that how and in what way the elephant can be boarded on a truck to bring it to the Safari park, Mallick said.”This is our first experience in tranquilising and transporting of a wild elephant,” Tapan Kumar Dey, Chief Executive of Nature Conservation Society told The New Nation.
