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MP: Elephant death toll at Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve rises to eight, probe
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
On Tuesday four elephants, from a herd of 13 elephants, were found dead in the BTR while four others were found ill during the normal patrolling. Following which the forest official reached the spot and identified that it was a herd of 13 elephants. They found five more elephants among them
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Madhya Pradesh: Four elephants found dead in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Four elephants were reported to be found dead on Wednesday in the trijunction area of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve located in Umaria district on Madhya Pradesh. Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve's Deputy Director PK Verma informed that a team has been formed to investigate the incident where four eleph
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World Animal Protection Approaches Prime Minister to Prevent Elephant Tran
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 19: In response to media reports that speak about a temple in South Delhi that is planning to bring an elephant from Assam soon, World Animal Protection has written to the Prime Minister of India, Chief Minister of Delhi and Lieutenant Governor of Delhi to stop the
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Mudarai: Madras HC issues notice to TN govt on a petitioner's plea to prot
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Madras HC orders Tamil Nadu government to keep captive elephants safely in temples and other locations across the state. The order came following a petitioner's plea in this regard. The petitoner alleged that one 54 year old elephant died due to authorities' neglect.Had the authorities fol
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Assam: Anti-elephant seasonal solar fence helps Mirza farmers reap good ha
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
A low-cost solar fence that has protected standing crops on three hectares of crop field from depredation by wild elephants at the Mirza area in the Kamrup district of Assam has immensely boosted paddy harvest by local farmers in the last harvesting season.
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Kaziranga National Park signs MoU to provide surveillance centre and dwell
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
In a significant move towards the protection of endangered animals, Anil Agarwal Foundation (AAF) through its flagship animal welfare initiative The Animal Care Organization (TACO), on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve to prov
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Madurai bench of Madras HC issues notice to govt on petition seeking rehab
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court issued a notice to the government for their response to a public interest petition seeking an order to the authorities to conduct rehabilitation camps for the temple, mutt, and other captive elephants once in a year.
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BSF personnel on Indo-Bangladesh border sensitised to deal with wild eleph
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Premier research-driven non-profit biodiversity conservation organization Aaranyak has reached out to Border Security Force (BSF) personnel deployed on India -Bangladesh border in Garo Hills region of Meghalaya to sensitise the force personnel on how to deal with herds of wild elephants they
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Elephants linked to India's culture, history: PM Modi
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
"World Elephant Day is an occasion to appreciate the wide range of community efforts to protect elephants. At the same time, we reaffirm our commitment to doing everything possible to ensure elephants get a conducive habitat where they can thrive. For us in India, the elephant is linked t
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World Animal Protection Calls on Rajasthan Chief Minister to End Elephant
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 10: On the occasion of World Elephant Day, World Animal Protection, has written to the Chief Minister of Rajasthan to express concern about the plight of the elephants used for riding at Amer fort in Jaipur in Rajasthan and seeking his intervention to put an end to
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Assam: HaatiApp to help communities coexist with elephants, reduce conflic
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Aaranyak, a leading biodiversity conservation organisation in Guwahati, has developed a mobile application for everyone, including the grassroots community, to help mitigate the ongoing Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) and promote coexistence in the state of Assam and the rest of the region.
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MoS Suresh Gopi thanks Tripura CM for timely delivery of queen pineapples
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The Union Minister of State for Tourism and Petroleum, Suresh Gopi, has expressed his heartfelt gratitude to Tripura Chief Minister, Dr. Manik Saha, for the timely delivery of the famous Queen Pineapples to Kerala for the elephants at Vadakkumnnatha Kshethram Temple, as part of the Aanayootu
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