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.
Odisha witnessed large scale inter-state movement of elephants in the current winter season with jumbos from Jharkhand and West Bengal migrating to the state, according to the All Odisha Elephant Census-2024 census report released on Thursday.
Three elephants were allegedly electrocuted after coming in contact with live wire traps laid by poachers in forest areas of Odisha’s Sambalpur district, a senior forest official said on Monday.
The death of eight elephants in Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh, likely due to consuming fungus-infected kodo millet, underscores a profound and growing challenge in India’s conservation landscape.
Ten wild elephants, from a herd of 13 jumbos, have died possibly after consuming some poisonous substance at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Madhya Pradesh within three days from Tuesday to Thursday.
The decision to cull 200 elephants in Zimbabwe in response to a severe drought highlights the intersection of environmentalism, human survival, and wildlife management.
