Wild elephants caught and tamed

Wild elephants caught and tamed

BANDAR LAMPUNG, Lampung: A team of workers from the local
conservation and natural resources agency is still hunting wild
elephants to be tamed and trained.

Agency chief Harjanto Wahju Sukotjo said yesterday the team
left for the jungle a week ago but was yet to report on how many
elephants it had caught.

The team was dispatched after more frequent reports of wild
elephants going on the rampage, destroying crops and encroaching
on residential areas.

The team comprised 18 people and four trained elephants to
help tame captured wild elephants, Antara reported.

The agency catches up to 40 wild elephants a year which are
sent to a training center in Way Kambas.

The conversion of forests into plantations and human
settlements is said to be the cause of wild animals running
amuck.

Recently three people were eaten by tigers in Lampung. (pan)