The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has confirmed Africa's largest elephant Dida died between 60 and 65 years, on Tuesday
November 2, 2022The 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“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, 2022Prime Minister also expressed happiness upon the rise in the number of elephant reserves in the last eight years.
August 12, 2022The 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, 2022In 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, 2022The 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, 2022The radio collars will be Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled and will track the real time location of problematic wild elephants.
June 25, 2021According 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, 2020The elephant will now receive "medical treatment and veterinary care along with proper medical procedures, including laser therapy and hydrotherapy".
October 8, 2020The 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, 2020Gandhi had said that Malappuram is India’s most violent district and an elephant is killed every 3 days in Kerala.
June 6, 2020Meanwhile, 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, 2020Earlier 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, 2020Meanwhile, Kerala Forest Minister K Raju has warned of strict action against the culprits responsible for the killing of the pregnant elephant.
June 4, 2020The 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, 2020A video was shared was Indian Forest Services (IFS) officer Parveen Kaswan in which the forest officials were seen rescuing the elephant.
April 16, 2020