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.
The last census conducted in 2017 counted 1970 elephants while the latest census found an increase in 122 elephants at 6% growth rate.
The CPI (ML) New Democracy today fielded Narendranath Roy as its candidate for the Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency today.
Within just one-and-a-half months, the wild elephants claimed the life of another man at Barjora village here today.
Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite navigation system that is utilised to pinpoint the ground position of an object.
Concerned over the influx of the migratory elephants in the Junglemahal stretches, the Forest Divisions in Bankura district have pressed a 15 member Elephant Squad into action for surveillance in apprehension that the maljurian pachyderms are likely to lock horns over territory
