Kerala Tourism to produce short movies on elephants
With the rising negative campaigns against Kerala through social media on treatment of elephants, the department of Kerala Tourism has decided to make short movies on elephant care and historic festivals to reverse the negative publicity.
The sad news is that animal rights activists at various platforms are campaigning against Kerala, that can create a reduction in inbound tourist arrival to God’s Own Country. Hence the Kerala Tourism Department is all set to counter the situation through professional video montages, that aims to revels the actual situation.
Currently, Kerala Tourism has a positive reputation in the global tourism market, with the continuous marketing efforts put forwarded by the tourism professionals.
Meanwhile, animal rights activists are currently circulating videos, that are more than 10 years old, which is not the reality in the real-time circumstances. Kerala state government, on the other hand, is taking care of these animals with utmost care and personal attention from veterinary doctors.
Most of the male elephants have musth period during monsoon season (Falls in the Malayalam month Karkkidakom) from June to October. The musth period, a condition of elephants characterized by highly aggressive behaviour, accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones, lasts 3 to 4 months for an elephant. The elephants are given special care and attention before the musth period and are given Sukha Chikitsa during the time.
In fact, Kerala is the only state which follows strict laws and is the first state in India to come up such laws in favour of the pachyderms.
Kodanad, known for its ‘Elephant Kraal’, is the only elephant rescue and training center in Kerala specialized for rescuing and training stranded adult and baby elephants from the forest regions across Kerala. The Kodanad Elephant Training Centre, which is now moved to Abhayaranyam near Kaprikkad, is one of the largest elephant training centres in Kerala near the southern banks of the Periyar River.
Since the ban on capturing elephants was enforced, this place now serves as one of the premier elephant training centres in Kerala. Muthanga of Wayanad and Konni of Pathanamthitta are two other elephant training centres. It is also to be noted that Kerala is the only place in the whole world which has a special palace dedicated for elephants. The one and only elephant palace is located at Punnattur Kotta, just 3 kms away from Guruvayoor temple, which owns the most number of elephants in the state.
