INTACH’s ‘Project Gaja-Lok’ to document Odisha’s elephant traditions
The project was inaugurated in Puri during Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra, underscoring the significance of elephants in Odisha's religious and cultural traditions.
The project was inaugurated in Puri during Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra, underscoring the significance of elephants in Odisha's religious and cultural traditions.
A plantation worker was killed in a wild elephant attack at Kattikulam, near Mananthavady in Kerala’s Wayanad district on Wednesday. The incident adds to a troubling series of intensifying human-wildlife conflict in the region.
A woman died while her husband sustained injuries when a wild elephant attacked them at Kalladi near Meppadi in Kerala’s Wayanad district on Tuesday.
A 40-year-old rubber tapper was killed in a wild elephant attack at Karuvarakundu in Kerala’s Malappuram district on Tuesday morning.
An elephant was seen in the voting line prior to the commencement of the first phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal, causing alarm among voters on Thursday morning.
Despite veterinarian experts attributing the death of the elephant Chanchal at Amer Hathi Gaon to old age and cardio-respiratory failure, the controversy surrounding the painting of the animal pink by Russian artist Julia Buruleva continues.
A female elephant, Suman, died in Siwan, Bihar, in circumstances that animal protection advocates say raises serious concerns about her upkeep.
The Purulia Divisional Forest Office (DFO) has stepped up surveillance as a herd of 42 wild elephants continues to roam across different parts of the district during the peak winter tourist season.
In the latest instance of man-elephant conflict, two people, including a septuagenarian from a forest-side village, were trampled to death by a wild tusker in Odisha’s Deogarh district during the wee hours of Thursday.
"The elephant faces a crisis perhaps not of extinction but of attrition," Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X, highlighting the various threats to elephant populations.
