10-year-old elephant’s journey across Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka sparks massive rescue and rehabilitation effort

A high-stakes wildlife rescue operation is underway as forest departments of Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka join forces to save Omkar, a 10–12-year-old juvenile elephant who wandered away from his herd earlier this year. The young tusker first strayed from his family in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district and has since travelled into Goa, prompting a carefully coordinated inter-state rescue mission.

The operation, being described as a ‘jumbo mission’, will involve over 60 forest officials, four to six trained kumki elephants (experts at guiding or calming wild elephants), veterinary teams, thermal surveillance units, police for crowd control, and heavy machinery including cr

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