विश्व हाथी दिवस पर विशेष: क्यों दंतविहीन होते जा रहे हैं गजराज

वैज्ञानिकों और वन विभाग के अनुमान के मुताबिक, उत्तर-पूर्वी भारत में पाए जाने वाले हाथियों में 60 प्रतिशत दंतहीन हैं। वहीं दक्षिण भारत में इनकी ...

Assam bans mining in Kaziranga after Supreme Court order

The apex court had issued an order on April 12, 2019, ordering a mining ban along the southern boundary of the Kaziranga National Park

Assam floods: about 250 animals, including 17 rhinos dead in Kaziranga

The death toll is likely to rise after the entire floodwater gets out of the park

Distress call

Assam floods: 85% of Kaziranga submerged, 9 one-horned rhinos dead

The national park is home to more than 2,000 one-horned rhinos, the largest population of this species in the world

Assam struggles to protect wildlife from accidents on Kaziranga highway

Government has expressed its inability to adopt suggested technical measures to curb animal casualties

Elephant dies after falling in a pit at Patanjali project site in Assam

A total of three elephants fell in the pit, prompting questions on allocation of land in a possible elephant corridor to the company

Unlawful entry

INDIA

Improving human-elephant relations

Assam government wants to build flyovers for Kaziranga rhinos

Elevated roads are expected to provide an easy passage to animals while moving between two adjacent forest reserves

Green tribunal orders state to restrict traffic around Kaziranga

Earlier this year, an expert panel had recommended construction of elevated roads to control animal deaths due to accidents

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (September 2-8)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Rhino census

Kaziranga to reopen late

Pachyderm vs human

Marauding elephants in Assam's Kaziranga national park killed 70 people last year

Human-eating elephants

Rhinos can live with tribals

But in Kaziranga forest officials have no respect for their needs and customs

Flood threatens Kaziranga

Heightened risk of poaching as animals tend to leave the park area to take shelter on higher land

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 16, 2019)

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

Numaligarh elephants’ home restored: Deopahar notified as reserve forest after 20 years

Deopahar was the centre of a fierce battle this decade over a notorious boundary wall constructed by the Numaligarh Refinery in Assam’s …

People protect forest

Flood havoc

Elephants have first right on forest, says SC while ordering demolition of Numaligarh Refinery wall

The 2.2-km boundary wall has been erected in 2011 on an elephant migration corridor in eastern Assam’s Golaghat district, for the …

Two die during an eviction drive in Kaziranga National Park

Without making any arrangements to accommodate the displaced, police fire tear gas on people resisting eviction