Digboi, Sept. 19 -- In a touching display of community compassion, forest officials and wildlife activists successfully rescued a two-month-old elephant calf and reunited it with its herd in the dense forests of Nazirating in Assam's Digboi.

Residents of the Bogapani Tea Garden area, under the Digboi Forest Division in Tinsukia District near the perennial Dibru River, first spotted the young calf alone and distressed on the evening of September 15.

The calf had fallen into a deep plantation drain in Section 4 of McLeod Russel's Bogapani Tea Estate and couldn't return to its mother, crying for hours in the harsh terrain.

Locals quickly alerted the Digboi Forest Department and experts from the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI).

Responding p...