Even as wildlife activists in the State have launched an online campaign, #GiantRefugees, urging Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to protect elephants, the death of a jumbo calf in Ganjam district once again exposes the sorry state of affairs in this regard in the State.
An elephant was seen guarding her calf’s body near a pond in which the junior fell to death.
The calf was found dead on Saturday morning in the pond at Giredi village under the Bhanjanagar Forest Range in the district.
Forest officials failed to recover body of the baby elephant as its mother elephant kept guarding the carcass.