Coimbatore: I may look huge, but I am very small to you. When I stand on your way to the temple you pelt stones at me or burst crackers to chase me away, but ironically, you pray to the elephant god Vinayagar as soon you enter the temple. With the help of a couple of JCB machines and a lorry, you can capture me and imprison me.
Coimbatore: I may look huge, but I am very small to you. When I stand on your way to the temple you pelt stones at me or burst crackers to chase me away, but ironically, you pray to the elephant god Vinayagar as soon you enter the temple. With the help of a couple of JCB machines and a lorry, you can capture me and imprison me. However, even with thousands of machines and lorries, you cannot create a forest even if you try for the span of your life.
Each day I can consume 200 to 250 kgs of food, 25 kgs of that comprises sticks and seeds and 300 to 500 plants grow each day from my dung. Nearly 3,000 plants are born a month and 36,500 trees grow in a year.
Don't you now realise that it is I who is the creator of forests, not the destroyer! After a meal, I walk 25 to 35 kilometers and make my own pathway. I am not human to remain stationary. I understand that if I remain in one place then it will create food scarcity and harm the food chain. Hence I keep travelling to places.
Many creatures use my pathway but how many obstructions have you constructed in my pathway! Ashrams, educational institutions, luxury resorts, concrete houses and many more. You have made my habitat yours. I gave you a place in my home but what did I get in return? You just cause me sadness.
You claim that I bother you, but that is untrue! I came to you in search of food and you fed me with pineapple laced with explosive material and killed me and my baby. How is this fair humans? You shoot me for tusks so that your vanity and greed can be addressed.
You use pesticides and electricity in agricultural fields as if they are normal. Is this humanity? We have families, children, relatives and friends like you. Forgetting all that, you turn a few of my fellow jumbos into 'kumkis' and use them against us.
Social organizations have been fighting to protect us. Today is our day. I am the child of the mother called Western ghats, I am nursed in her lap. How much sorrow do you cause to me!? I have a request for you. Don't teach your progeny that an elephant is a dangerous animal! Educate them to let us be! Never ever forget - our land and our right!
Each day I can consume 200 to 250 kgs of food, 25 kgs of that comprises sticks and seeds and 300 to 500 plants grow each day from my dung. Nearly 3,000 plants are born a month and 36,500 trees grow in a year.
Don't you now realise that it is I who is the creator of forests, not the destroyer! After a meal, I walk 25 to 35 kilometers and make my own pathway. I am not human to remain stationary. I understand that if I remain in one place then it will create food scarcity and harm the food chain. Hence I keep travelling to places.
Many creatures use my pathway but how many obstructions have you constructed in my pathway! Ashrams, educational institutions, luxury resorts, concrete houses and many more. You have made my habitat yours. I gave you a place in my home but what did I get in return? You just cause me sadness.
You claim that I bother you, but that is untrue! I came to you in search of food and you fed me with pineapple laced with explosive material and killed me and my baby. How is this fair humans? You shoot me for tusks so that your vanity and greed can be addressed.
You use pesticides and electricity in agricultural fields as if they are normal. Is this humanity? We have families, children, relatives and friends like you. Forgetting all that, you turn a few of my fellow jumbos into 'kumkis' and use them against us.
Social organizations have been fighting to protect us. Today is our day. I am the child of the mother called Western ghats, I am nursed in her lap. How much sorrow do you cause to me!? I have a request for you. Don't teach your progeny that an elephant is a dangerous animal! Educate them to let us be! Never ever forget - our land and our right!