Elephants to get wider passage

Supreme Court warns of criminal prosecution against those found torturing captive elephants

Despite rules to protect the animals from cruelty, many temples in Kerala continue to organise processions of these animals without taking into …

Similipal National Park a poacher’s paradise? Experts note a rise in incidents

On January 22, carcass of a male elephant, whose population is already on a decline, was found 

Bihar man-eater shot: ‘We need to put down problem animals for wildlife conservation’

Shafath Ali Khan, who was engaged by the Maharashtra government in the operation to eliminate Avni in 2018, released a book this year to narrate …

Elephant tusks seized, four arrested in Bihar

The prime accused repeatedly claimed that he was the proud owner of two captive elephants that died four years ago and that their tusks were kept …

Elephant crushed by train in Odisha’s Sambalpur

This is the 29th such death in Odisha in a decade  and the second death in Sambalpur district within a month

NGT direction to notify Odisha elephant corridors welcome, but more needs to be done

Survival, free movement of pachyderm population possible only if connecting corridors are revived, restored

Expect more elephant raids during paddy harvest in Dooars this year

Many COVID-19 returnees have cultivated paddy this year during the monsoon due to the lack of work and livelihood opportunities

Global Eco Watch: Pregnant Gaur killed in Kerala; 6 held

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Union Budget 2020-21: Big chunk goes to tigers and elephants

Allocation for other species reduced  

Tusker v makhna: Who will woo the female elephant?

Jumbo alert

SMS-based alert system can drastically cut human-elephant conflicts

Africa suspends ivory trade for nine years

Elephants without borders

Tourism-dependent nations value elephants

On the trail of rampaging elephants

Down To Earth reporters visit human-elephant conflict zones and discover that affected people are increasingly venting their ire on forest staff …

Our forests are burning

People's relationship to the forest

Total weight of humans is 10 times that of all wild mammals put together

The weight distribution is also skewed: 40% global biomass of wild land mammals is concentrated in only 10 species

Bhupender Yadav launches field manual for forest staffers to manage human-elephant conflict

Yadav also released the Preliminary Report on Human Elephant Conflict and a booklet titled Trumpet

India identifying, defining forests wrongly, say experts at Anil Agarwal Dialogue

The urgent agenda today is to reinvent forest management for the future; so that India can build a wood-based future, but still protect the …

Wildlife parts, live chameleon seized in Odisha’s Jajpur

Forest officials trying to find whether two arrested persons are poachers or couriers  

Centre asks road-making authorities to avoid construction in protected areas

Get all clearances for unavoidable projects through national parks, sanctuaries: Ministry to NHAI, others

Will IUCN ban on domestic ivory trade spark a global battle on conservation?

Two blocs of countries seem headed for a confrontation over the issue of ban on ivory trade

100,000 killed in 3 years, Africa may have no elephants in a few decades

Asia would be responsible for their disappearance, shows study that for the first time quantitatively demonstrates scale of illegal killing

Ivory poaching: scientists trace origin to two hotspots in Africa

Researchers from the University of Washington matched the DNA fingerprint of ivory to the DNA profile of elephant dung to come to the conclusion