With Odisha recording an all-time yearly high record of 94 elephant deaths in 2024-25 (till 18.3.2025), the state has acquired the dubious distinction of being the elephant graveyard of India.
The movement of elephants in southwestern region of Bengal began in the year 1993 when around 22 elephants arrived at the Mayurjharna Elephant Reserve, located at the junction of the districts of Jhargram, Bankura, and Purulia.
Odisha, which is home to 2,013 elephants as per the latest census conducted in last November, is annually losing 81 pachyderms since the last three years, Forest Minister Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia told the Assembly on Wednesday.
In a tragic incident, two people were killed and several others injured after two elephants ran amok during a festival at Manakulangara Temple at Kuruvangad near Koyilandy in Kerala’s Kozhikode district on Thursday.
In the Kanksha block of West Burdwan district, the forest department has escorted the Madhyamik examinees with their Airavat vehicle safely to the centres.
Sub Divisional Officer Pratappur Ashutosh Bhagat stated that the arrested suspects are being interrogated. The involvement of other villagers is also being investigated. Everyone involved in the crime will be brought to justice. Action will be taken against all under the Wildlife Protection Act, added Bhagat
Yet another resident was knocked down by the elephants at a village in Barjora in the last midnight hours.
In the heart of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, a tragedy is unfolding as dozens of elephants succumb to the relentless assault of climate change impacts.
A six-month-old elephant calf, Kanmani, returned to a new life under the care of a veterinarian and Forest Guards after being found abandoned in the Attapadi forest in October with injuries all over the body.
The second migrating herd of the Dalma range of elephants that entered Bankura last week, destroyed several acres of almost ready-toharvest paddy on Beliatore last night
