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.
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
In a massive five-day operation, the Assam Forest Department successfully tranquillized and relocated a wild elephant that had entered a civilian area in Hajo area of Kamrup district, to Manas National Park on Tuesday.
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.
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
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.
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.
Two persons were killed after being attacked by a wild elephant in Telangana's Kumuram Bheem (KB) Asifabad district in less than 24 hours, officials said on Thursday.