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.
With as many as 857 elephants perishing in the last decade, Odisha has virtually turned into a graveyard for elephants, although national heritage animal status has been accorded to tuskers.
To address the rising human-elephant conflicts during the migratory season, the Tamil Nadu Forest Department has installed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-triggered early warning system to alert the public about elephant movement.
Of the multiplicity of unnatural reasons like poaching, electrocution, train & road kills and even falling into open wells, electrocution stays at the top of the leading causes for unnatural deaths.
Three wild elephants trampled two men to death and injured another person seriously near the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday.
In a tragic incident, a man was trampled to death by a wild elephant during the early hours of Thursday in Cherambady village of the Nilgiri district in Tamil Nadu.
