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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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
FRA helps Dhenkanal tribals gain land rights
Their ancestors were brought in as workers nearly a century ago by the former princely state
'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
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
Human activities in Asia have reduced elephant habitat by nearly two-thirds since 1700
Asian elephants are one of the most endangered large mammals
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
International outcry over Zimbabwe’s plan to export elephant calves
Conservationists denounce the Robert Mugabe government’s capture of dozens of calves and plans to export them to China or the UAE