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'Lifeline' fence empowers women in human-elephant conflict zone in Assam's
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The installation of a solar-powered fence in Besorkona Kochpara, a remote village in Assam's Goalpara district, has transformed the lives of its residents by protecting them from wild elephants.
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Assam: Students sensitised to biodiversity conservation, coexistence with
Updated : 2 years ago IST
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
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Chhattisgarh's Korba administration ensures successful May 7 LS polls by t
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
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.
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Women's handloom skills fine-tuned in Human Elephant Conflict-hit Meghalay
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
With the raging Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) having devastating impact on the principal and conventional livelihood options like agriculture of people in the affected areas, Aaranyak and British Asian Trust have collaborated to provide alternative livelihood options to womenfolk hit by the
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Assam: Human elephant conflict-affected women play key role in Aaranyak-SB
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The women from the local communities in Assam have been extending wonderful cooperation towards Aaranyaks' sustained efforts for the mitigation of human-elephant conflict through the involvement of the community.
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Training in Assam plantations to reduce human-elephant conflict
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The initiative aimed at supplementing people's livelihoods who have been affected by the burgeoning Human-elephant conflict (HEC) in eastern Assam.
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Chhattisgarh: 'Gajayatra' campaign averts human-elephant conflict in Mahas
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
A public awareness campaign 'Gajayatra' was taken up by the forest department in Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh on Wednesday to prevent human-elephant conflict.
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Human-elephant conflict: Odisha seeks 4 trained 'Kumki' Jumbos from Tamil
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Amidst the rising cases of human-elephant conflict in Odisha, the state government has requested the Tamil Nadu forest department to supply four Kumki elephants to chase away wild jumbos straying into human habitats.
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Assam: Solar fence installed in Udalguri to mitigate human-elephant confli
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The Aaranyak, in association with the Forest Department, has installed a seven-kilometre-long community-managed single-strand solar-powered fence in Assam's Udalguri district to mitigate human-elephant conflict (HEC) in the region.
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Meghalaya: British Asian Trust official inaugurates solar fence to mitigat
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Belinda Stuwart Cox from the British Asian Trust, UK, officially opened the fence, symbolising a significant step in mitigating human-elephant conflict.
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Chhattisgarh: Elephant herd blocks highway to protect calf that fell in Ko
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
According to Katghora Divisional Forest Officer, Nishant Kumar, "The cause of the unusual 'chakka jam' was an elephant calf that had fallen into a deep ditch next to the highway, prompting the herd of elephants to intervene."
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Wild Asian elephants have unusual puzzle-solving abilities
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A new study published in the journal Animal Behaviour presented data from a six-month investigation that documented individual wild Asian elephants' skills to get food by solving riddles that unlocked storage boxes.
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