madikeri the death of another elephant in rangasamudra in kodagu district on saturday morning took the death toll of jumbos in the district to four in a span of three days the 15yearold female elephant that was rescued on thursday from a slush pond succumbed to dehydration on saturday morningthe elephant was rescued at parlakoti village in rangasamundra in a rescue operation overseen by the madikeri forest division deputy conservator of forests madikeri manjunath told stoi we tried our level best to save it doctors provided her with the best treatmentforest department authorities said that the elephant which got stuck inside a pond inside a plantation ate nothing after it was pulled out it stopped eating and drinking water from thursday and had injuries on its left leg said a forest department officialthe officials carried out a postmortem on the elephants body after which it was buried inside the minukoli forest area the body was transported by a tractor with the help of elephantsthe death of the young elephant comes close on the heels of the death of three others in soorikadu village on thursday three elephants died including a mother and its calf while the mother elephant was 35 the calf was around five months oldon the other hand the death of four elephants in a span of three days has raised the hackles of environmentalists who want the state government to roll out a concrete action plan to save wild elephants in the western ghats in the past six months there have been numerous incidents of wild elephants dying in kodagu and hassan the state government must initiate an immediate action plan to save wild elephants there is an urgent need to stop humananimal conflict said suruchi sukumar an activist from madikeri