Tag: Elephant
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Africa lost its largest female Elephant
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has confirmed Africa's largest elephant Dida died between 60 and 65 years, on Tuesday
November 2, 2022 -
This computer engineer-turned-conservation scientist is using sound to mitigate human-elephant conflict in India
The issue that Seema is dedicated to is a big one in the country, particularly in rural villages, as India has the largest population of wild Asian elephants.
September 24, 2022 -
‘500 tusker deaths annually points to man-animal conflict’
“With competition for resources, (the number of) human-animal conflicts are increasing, and it is very unfortunate that around 500 people are killed in elephant attacks and 100 jumbos are killed in retaliation annually,” Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said.
August 12, 2022 -
World Elephant day: Modi expresses happiness on rise in elephant reserves in last 8 years
Prime Minister also expressed happiness upon the rise in the number of elephant reserves in the last eight years.
August 12, 2022 -
Environment Ministry to carry out leopard & elephant estimation along with tigers
The tiger census is held once in four years while for the elephants, the exercise is carried out once in five years. There are 2,967 tigers as per the 2018-19 data, and as per the 2017 data, there are less than 30,000 elephants in the country.
June 8, 2022 -
Man and elephant
In Dalma range, despite the death of the pachyderms, the villagers have constructed electrical fencing to protect the agricultural produce and, no less crucially, their homes. In the span of a week, such unauthorized fences have claimed the lives of two full-grown elephants in Bankura.
March 17, 2022 -
Man-elephant conflict reaches flashpoint in Odisha as government’s mitigation plan found wanting
The State has already reported 97 human deaths and 96 in HEC in 2021-22 so far. In the last six weeks the Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) has been raging in all elephant-bearing districts with more elephants entering villages in search of food.
January 20, 2022 -
Odisha to tag problematic tuskers with radio collars to check human-elephant conflict
The radio collars will be Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled and will track the real time location of problematic wild elephants.
June 25, 2021 -
Elephant electrocuted in north Bengal forest, one arrested
According to local sources, the incident took place on Friday when an elephant came in contact with live electric wires illegally put up around a cultivable land near the Khairakata area inside the Diana forest range.
November 1, 2020 -
Blind elephant to get therapy in UP elephant hospital
The elephant will now receive "medical treatment and veterinary care along with proper medical procedures, including laser therapy and hydrotherapy".
October 8, 2020 -
Exclude elephant reserve from coal block auction: Chhattisgarh govt
The exclusion of coal blocks in these areas from the auction would be appropriate because of the region's rich flora and find apart from abundant mineral wealth including coal, the forest minister further wrote.
June 22, 2020 -
Case against Maneka Gandhi for ‘communal’ remark on Kerala’s Malappuram district over elephant death
Gandhi had said that Malappuram is India’s most violent district and an elephant is killed every 3 days in Kerala.
June 6, 2020 -
Kerala makes first arrest in elephant death case day after CM Pinarayi Vijayan informs of 3 suspects
Meanwhile, it is alleged that the killing was not deliberate as the elephant had walked into a trap laid for wild boars that come to destroy the crops frequently.
June 5, 2020 -
‘Probe underway, focus on 3 suspects, will bring culprits to justice’: Kerala CM on elephant death amid outrage
Earlier in the day, the Central government taking a serious note of the incident, had said that it will leave no stone unturned to investigate properly and nab the culprits.
June 4, 2020 -
‘Not Indian culture’: Govt on elephant death in Kerala after it was fed with firecracker stuffed pineapple
Meanwhile, Kerala Forest Minister K Raju has warned of strict action against the culprits responsible for the killing of the pregnant elephant.
June 4, 2020 -
Kerala: FIR lodged in pregnant wild elephant’s killing, who was fed with firecracker in pineapple
The wild animal came out of the forests of the Silent Valley in Attappadi to the village area in search of food, where somebody fed her the pineapple embedded with cracker which is generally used by local farmers to protest their crops against wild boars.
June 3, 2020 -
Andhra Pradesh Forest Department rescues elephant from 15 feet deep ditch
A video was shared was Indian Forest Services (IFS) officer Parveen Kaswan in which the forest officials were seen rescuing the elephant.
April 16, 2020