While the Kerala Forest department officials have intensified the combing operation to capture Belur Makhna, a tuskless male elephant that killed a farmer at Chaligaddha a few days ago, the elephant has moved to the nearby Bavali forest under the Nagarahole tiger reserve in Karnataka.
A signal received by the officials from the radio collar attached to the animal on Saturday night showed that it had moved to the Bavali forest under the HB Kuppa forest range in Karnataka, a Forest department official said.
As the animal was spotted nearly 500 m away from the Kerala-Karnataka border, the darting team had awaited at the Bavali forest zone anticipating its return to Kerala‘s part of the forest on Sunday morning. But the mission was temporarily halted at noon after the animal moved further into Karnataka, around 1.5 km. “However we are tracking the animal online,” the official said.
