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.
Veteran Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan once had a scary encounter with an elephant. The actor recently opened up about his jungle safari experience on his quiz based reality show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’.
The laboratory, equipped with high-tech machines, specifically calibrated to examine Schedule I animals—mainly tigers, leopards, and elephants—has been set up at CTR's Dhikala Range Rescue Centre.
For countless villagers across south Bengal, the night often brings fear instead of rest—fear of an elephant herd straying into their fields, crushing the year’s harvest, toppling mud houses, or leaving behind a trail of grief.
In the latest outbreak of man-elephant conflict, three people, including a woman, were killed during the wee hours on Thursday as a wild tusker trampled them to death in forest-side Baghadharia village in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district, an official said.
Anandamay Barman, BJP MLA from Matigara-Naxalbari, raised serious concerns in the West Bengal Assembly over frequent incidents of wild elephant depredation in villages bordering the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary.
