{"id":20603,"date":"2022-10-07T19:41:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T14:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=20603"},"modified":"2022-10-07T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T14:29:55","slug":"two-elephants-found-dead-in-odishas-sambalpur-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2022\/10\/07\/two-elephants-found-dead-in-odishas-sambalpur-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Elephants Found Dead in Odisha\u2019s Sambalpur Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carcasses of two wild elephants were found in Tileimal Patra forest under Bamra Badarama range in Odisha&#8217;s Sambalpur district on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Locals found the bodies of a female elephant and a tusker lying close to a paddy field. Forest Department officials were informed and reached the spot to begin investigations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From preliminary investigation, it was suspected that the two elephants may have consumed pesticides used in the paddy field or may came across a live wire, sources said. However, the exact reason for their death is yet to be ascertained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Odisha is witnessing high number of jumbo deaths in past several years. At least 245 elephants died in the state from 2019-20 to 2021-22. While 82 died in 2019-20, death of another 77 jumbos were reported in 2020-21, and the number of deaths increased to 86 in 2021-22. Carcases of several wild elephants were found during the months of June, July and August this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Odisha government has also constituted a task force to investigate the cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carcasses of two wild elephants were found in Tileimal Patra forest under Bamra Badarama range in Odisha&#8217;s Sambalpur district on Thursday. Locals found the bodies of a female elephant and a tusker lying close to a paddy field. Forest Department officials were informed and reached the spot to begin investigations. From preliminary investigation, it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20605,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20603\/revisions\/20605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}