As part of a temporary arrangement for summer, authorities of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) have shifted 26 captive elephants from the Kozhikamuthi elephant camp near Top Slip in Coimbatore district to four other places within the reserve.
Water in a stream, which flows through the Kozhikamuthi camp, became inadequate for all the elephants and, hence, the animals were shifted.
Bhargava Teja, Deputy Director of the Pollachi Division of the ATR, however, said that the practice of splitting the camp elephants in summer was usual. “It is a routine practice. Usually, some elephants are shifted to Varagaliar and Chinnar in summer. This year, they have been moved to other places too,” he said.
