Tusker v makhna: Who will woo the female elephant?

Tranquilised wild elephant dies after falling off lorry; autopsy indicates cardiac arrest cause of death

Wildlife activist alleges negligence by forest department during capture operation  

New MoEF guidelines for elephant deaths from anthrax

Environment ministry suggests official team to collect biological samples, dispose infected carcasses safely and map anthrax hotspots

About 100 elephants paraded in Kerala's Thrissur Pooram without permission

Jumbos not registered with the Animal Welfare Board, but state government refuses to stop festival

Radio collars for elephants in forests along rail tracks

Environment ministry wants to tag jumbos to track their movements and avert rail accidents

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

Indian conservationist wins prestigious Whitley Award

A single man’s fight to protect elephants has reduced man-animal conflict in Tamil Nadu

France won’t buy Zimbabwe’s ‘excess’ elephants

Animal rights group petitioned to stop the sale

Sri Lanka has 7,370 elephants

It is the first ever census of its kind in the country

Africa’s Tanzania loses 60 per cent elephants to poaching

Neighbour Mozambique had recently revealed that it lost nearly half of its elephant population in five years

No food in forests: Invasive species and altered habitats in Karnataka’s Western Ghats are creating a food crisis

The crisis may be fueling conflicts between humans and wildlife, prompting animals to venture into human settlements

Global Eco Watch: Chinese pink dolphin numbers rise in Pearl river estuary

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FRA helps Dhenkanal tribals gain land rights

Their ancestors were brought in as workers nearly a century ago by the former princely state

Tamil Nadu says no to Indian Neutrino Observatory project in Theni

The Tamil Nadu government filed an affidavit in the apex court stating the project in Theni would cause irreparable damage to the Western Ghats

'Resurgence of smuggling in Myanmar threat to wild Asian elephants'

Smugglers resort to torture to capture and train elephant calves, says report by wildlife monitoring network

Human activities in Asia have reduced elephant habitat by nearly two-thirds since 1700

Asian elephants are one of the most endangered large mammals

No food in forests: Lack of food is driving Kerala’s wild animals into human settlements

Spread of invasive plants, habitat destruction destroying food for herbibores, which in turn is affecting carnivores

Global Eco Watch: Arm forest guards with guns instead of lathis, suggests SC

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Snakebites in rural India: A slow suppuration

Most people in rural areas die from snakebites during the monsoon season; a quarter of these are children less than 15 years of age

'Only closure of ivory markets can save African elephants'

Study by Wildlife Conservation Society underlines how illegal ivory trade, which has doubled since 2007, is causing rapid decline in elephant …

Elephant poaching rates vary across Africa: 19 years of data from 64 sites suggest why

Poaching rates are lower where there is strong national governance and where local levels of human development are relatively high

Almost 230,000 elephants killed for tusks in less than six years, reveals new report

'Out of Africa' seeks to fill the knowledge gap on how the trade functions in an organised way and shows ways it can be curbed

As told to Parliament (March 13, 2023): 19% PM2.5 emissions in Indo-Gangetic Plains come from households

Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Chandigarh and Delhi emit 437 gigagrams PM2.5 per year through household cooking 

Saseendran’s ‘tiger cull’: Kerala forest minister made a gaffe; but state’s human-wildlife conflict needs redressal

Removing invasive plants, restoring vanishing wildlife corridors and eco-restoration inside forests should be the solution to human-wildlife …

NGT halts work in Adani's coal mine in Chhattisgarh

Green tribunal questions MoEF's approval to the mining project in a “no-go” area which happens to be an elephant corridor