Stranded elephant calf rescued.

Borjuri, Kaziranga, October 4, 2003: A month old male elephant calf was rescued at a river island on river Brahmaputra, near Tezpur, on October 2 in the north-eastern state of Assam. Several attempts by forest officials to reunite it with its natal herd failed.

The calf was later shifted to the WTI-run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) by a team led by Dr. Anjan Talukdar. “The calf seems to be recuperating but we will closely observe it,” he said. It is being fed with the infant milk formula especially developed for Asian elephant calves at CWRC.

The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation, was established by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and the Department of Forest and Environment, Government of Assam, and is supported by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Located adjacent to the Kaziranga National Park, CWRC has attended to 141 cases till date and has eight animals in its care, including three elephant calves, a wild buffalo and a greater one horned rhino calf, an infant hoolock gibbon and a leopard among others