100 elephants killed in 2 years in India, the country that worships the elephant as God

India is a country that worships the elephant as a God and temples down south proudly display their elephants decorated in all their finery on special festive occasions. However, the elephants are regularly killed for their tusks by gangs of poachers as narrated by a man who had been associated with such gangs over a period of time.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 13 August 2015.

The gang was active in the forests of Vazhachal, Munnar and Parambikulam in not just Kerala, but in neighboring Tamil Nadu and Karnataka as well. Investigators in Kerala have unearthed more than 20 deaths over a period of 10 months and believe that it could go to as high as 100 following the gunning down of the forest brigand Veerappan in 2004.
The saddest part is the involvement of some forest officers with the poachers. Out of 40 persons arrested so far, there is a forest range officer and a deputy range officer. There was a poachers' dens in the Vazhachal forest and at least 17 country-made guns.
Forest officials had identified the mastermind but before they caught up with him, he was found dead in a farmhouse in Dodamarg in Maharashtra – with a suicide note. They have recovered some 50-Kg of ivory.
There are suspicion of links with some ayurvedic drug makers because some of them have been selling potions with ivory content claiming it as a magic remedy for baldness.
(Image courtesy wikimediacomons.org)

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