World Elephant Day: It is time to retire Amer Fort’s working elephants

A non-profit, World Animal Protection, has urged the Rajasthan government to retire elephants used to give joyrides to tourists at Amer Fort in Jaipur

Elephant electrocuted in Odisha: Third death in 34 days

As many as 732 elephants died between 2009 and 2019 in Odisha 

World Elephant Day: Poaching of elephants for their skin could wipe them out

Poaching elephants for their skins to use in Asian medicine, will not just target males but also females and calves 

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 …

‘China committed to supporting conservation of African wildlife’

Senior Beijing official addresses delegates at a workshop in Nairobi, says China has been and will cooperate with African governments to save …

What elephants teach us about cancer prevention

Elephants naturally avoid cancer after 55 million years of evolution. Scientists are studying if they can extract lessons that could help people

World Wildlife Day: India’s conflict with elephants

Elephants stand at the focal point on the occasion of World Wildlife Day. In India, human-elephant conflict is increasing due to shrinking habitats

Elephants pit

Scientist R SUKUMAR of the Centre for Ecological Studies, Bangalore, says that DTE correspondent Anju Sharma was slipshod in her homework on elephants

Pachyderm dilemma

Zimbabwe, which is hosting the June convention on endangered species, is fighting for right to controlled trade in ivory

World Elephant Day: Why conservation efforts in Africa evoke opposing reactions

Uneven distribution of the jumbos across the continent has led to increase in human-wildlife conflict and loss of habitat

A first for large African mammals: DNA used to count Gabon’s endangered forest elephants

There are 95,110 forest elephants in Gabon according to analysis of DNA extracted from dung

The Tiger in Tamilakam

The striped big cat of Asia occupied a unique place in the psyche and ethical consciousness of the ancient Tamils, something which continues to …

Preserving India's pachyderms

The recently-concluded 'Gaj Mahotsav’ in Delhi celebrated the Indian Elephant, an animal that is fast losing its habitat in India

Pune Court orders four rescued circus elephants to be sent back to where they came from

The foundation for the court decision rests on procedural flaws committed by the enforcement authorities during …

Tusker in trouble

Poachers threaten the survival of bull elephants in Simlipal, needed for the breeding of the species and transfer of typical genetic traits

How National Board for Wildlife gives legitimacy to illegal mining in Assam

The board approved coal mining proposal that diverts 98.59 hectares of forest land in Dehing Patkai

Unchecked mining spells doom for Saranda forest in Jharkhand

Unregulated large-scale mining activities have decimated plant and wildlife populations in the once-rich Saranda forest in Jharkhand

Over 1,500 people died in elephant attacks in last 3 years, maximum casualties in Odisha

In 2017, the environment ministry had issued a guideline for managing human-elephant conflict and had directed elephant range states to …

Environmental crime on the rise, says report

More than one quarter of the world’s elephant population has been killed in the past 10 years

Protect the tuskers damn the carvers

In its enthusiasm to protect tuskers from being killed, the government has extended the worldwide ban on ivory trade to India as well. Left in …

Pachyderm policies

Indian and Kenyan elephant specialists recently exchanged views on controlling a common problem: man-elephant conflicts

Green Oscar Awards

Raman Sukumar, founder-director of the Bangalore-based Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre, has been selected for the prestigious …

From turtles to elephants

Riddle of the Ridley and Lai Lai the Baby Elephant by Shekar Dattatri Wildlife Protection Society of India Delhi and Tulika Publishers, Chennai

Coexistence & conflict, sides of the same coin: Assam villagers’ kindness towards injured elephant heartening

When an injured tusker was found in an Assam village, locals rushed to his aid with food, medical assistance 

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 16, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal