Elephants are Ecological Engineers: the Giants Who Build Their Own World
Forests are living systems, and elephants are their engineers—and in losing them, we do not merely lose a species, we lose the very architecture of the wild.
Forests are living systems, and elephants are their engineers—and in losing them, we do not merely lose a species, we lose the very architecture of the wild.
The 47-year-old Balika Sen, a resident of Karmohni Rajapur village, Ward No. 10 in Nepal, had gone to work in the fields on Wednesday.
The deaths of seven elephants on a railway track in Assam are not just a tragic accident; they are a stark reminder of how India continues to underestimate the cost of development imposed on living landscapes.
Seven elephants were killed and a calf injured after the Rajdhani Express hit a herd in Assam’s Hojai, derailing coaches and disrupting rail services.
The forest department, with financial support from a Japanese agency, is set to deploy artificial intelligence to monitor the real-time movement of migratory elephant herds in Bankura, aiming to reduce recurring human-elephant conflicts.
As human-elephant conflicts become a perennial menace across the south Bengal districts over the years, the forest department aims to minimise depredation and movement of the migratory herds of elephants.
Two tusker elephants crossed the Damodar river and sneaked into the Gopalpur forests near here under the Burdwan Forest Division in the early morning hours today.
Terming the restrictions as “impractical”, the Supreme Court on Thursday put on hold the Kerala High Court's order on the use of elephants and observing distances between them, the public, flambeau, and the percussion display during festival parades, including the ‘Thrissur Pooram”.
A herd of 52 Dalma range elephants from Jharkhand entered the Bankura forests Monday late night through the West Midnapore jungle corridor.
To mitigate human-elephant conflicts, the forest department has planned to organise a 'Hati-Bandhu Mela,' a festival dedicated to elephants, aimed at raising awareness among the public.
