Fliers fume over planes treated with pesticides
Subject: Fliers fume over planes treated with pesticides
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:01:06 -0400
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of
California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought you might like to read an article entitled: Pesticides suspected in elephant deaths in India.
GUWAHATI, India - Officials probing last month's deaths of 18 elephants in a wildlife park in northeastern India said on the weekend angry villagers killed them using pesticides.
"Wild elephants are fond of country-made liquor and we suspect the villagers must have mixed it with pesticides and left it for the animals to drink," said Dr. Apurba Chakraborty, a member of the investigating team.
Growing human settlement in their habitats has forced herds of wild elephants out of jungles looking for food, trampling paddy fields, destroying houses and granaries, and angering villagers, officials said.
Indian forest guards found the dead elephants last month at Nameri national park, about 200 km (125 miles) from Guwahati, the biggest city in the northeastern state of Assam.
India's northeast is home to about half of the country's elephant population numbering around 30,000.
Government protection of elephants over the last 20 years, including a ban on their capture, had led to a rise in their population in Assam state to about 5,000, experts say.
Story Date: 17/9/2001 - http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=12422
Well Mr. Helliker, Your "registered" POISONS are apparently strong enough to even kill elephants! You must be very proud!
Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten
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