World Elephant Day: India’s jumbos stare at a worrying future

Today only about 27,000 wild elephants remain in India, as opposed to a million a decade ago. There has been a 98 per cent nose-dive in their …

Technical committee formed to create National Elephant Action Plan

The main focus of the NEAP will be to mitigate human-elephant conflict, along with improvement of habitat

Elephants fall prey to Odisha mineral rush

Three elephants were killed while crossing a national highway on August 22 when they were hit by trucks laden with iron ore

Seal them within 48 hours: SC to TN govt on illegal private resorts in the Nilgiris

The resorts have been built in the major elephant corridor in the area, something that the court was especially displeased about

ट्रेन की टक्कर से 2 हाथियों की मौत, चार साल में मरे 62 हाथी

हरिद्वार के ज्वालापुर सीतापुर क्षेत्र में तेज रफ्तार ट्रेन की चपेट में आने से दो हाथियों की मौके पर ही मौत हो गई

Elephants' conflict of diet

It's not just fragmented corridors that take elephants to farms. They get drawn towards crops that improve their state of mind and well-being

'Elephant conservation is not exactly anybody’s priority'

M D Madhusudan is an ecologist and conservationist with Nature Conservation Foundation in Mysore, Karnataka. An elephant expert, he is a member …