Several provisions of water and other amenities have been made at Alipore Zoological Park in Kolkata to protect animals from extreme heat during the summer season.
The region's leading biodiversity conservation organisation, Aaranyak, has organised a series of awareness events to sensitise young students to biodiversity conservation as well as to impress upon them the need for coexistence with wild elephants through mitigation of the human elephant
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 22: On May 19th, NewArtX, an innovative digital fine art platform by entrepreneurs Suresh Pareek, Saryu Pareek & Pulkit Gupta, was officially launched with a grand event at The Bay Club Mumbai inaugurated by Sangita Jindal, Chairperson of JSW Foundation.
Upon receiving the distress call, Vantara mobilized a convoy of vehicles, including ambulances and feed trucks, alongside a team of skilled personnel, to provide essential care for the elephants named Pratima and her calf, Maniklal.
The drive to radio collar the wild elephant who has been given the name of 'Moti' by locals began on Sunday. 'Moti' roams in the forest alone and had recently destroyed paddy fields and small huts in human settlements close to forest areas, forest official said.
Chhattisgarh's Korba administration is on a mission they hadn't quite anticipated, tracking the movement of wild elephants for successful May 7 Lok Sabha elections as the region is suffering from increased man-elephant conflict.
The intervention of the High Court of Tripura paved the way for the rescue of a female elephant and its calf allegedly facing cruelty at the hands of the owners.
According to the District Forest Officer (DFO), Pirai Sudhan, four people, including two forest officials, were killed in a wild elephant attack at Dhiraimajuli in the Barsala constituency of Sonitpur district.
Aaranyak, a leading research-driven biodiversity conservation organisation, has partnered with local schools and community groups to launch a seed collection drive throughout the Udalguri and Baksa districts of Assam as part of its larger goal of restoration of degraded elephant habitats in
District administration and forest officials are working to tackle the challenges they were facing in ensuring 100 per cent voting in elephant-dominated areas, fearing elephant attacks and difficult forest terrain.
New Delhi [India], April 10: World Animal Protection is alarmed to note the recent incidents of elephants turning violent in Rajasthan, Kerala and West Bengal and causing bodily damage and human deaths. A Russian tourist was attacked by an elephant in the precincts of Amer Fort in Jaipur rec