Dead and posing a danger to wildlife. The earlier practice was to burn the carcasses. It was stopped and the carcasses were left for wild boar

2007-09-12 - Bangalore, India , Raghava M.

Flouting well laid-out guidelines enunciated by the Supreme Court, forest officials at the Bandipur National Park have left the carcasses of wild elephants as food for other animals, an official inquiry has revealed. Eight elephants were found dead at the park between June 2006 and June 2007. The State Police (Forest Cell), which is inquiring into the elephants deaths, found that the carcasses were left in the forest without either being buried or cremated.

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