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Operation Gajamukti: Another wild elephant released from Aralam Farm in Ka
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Authorities confirmed that operations to drive out the remaining wild elephants from the area will continue in the coming days.
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Kerala: Forest Department catches two wild elephants under Operation Gajam
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
In a continued effort to mitigate rising human-wildlife conflict in the region, the Forest Department carried out a special drive under its 'Operation Gajamukti' initiative, successfully caught two wild elephants and sent them back into the Aralam Farm forest on wednesday.
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Wild Animals are not Entertainment, Reiterates World Animal Protection
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 26: World Animal Protection has written to the American ambassador, to India, Honourable Mr Sergio Gor, after news reports and photographs indicate that he rode an elephant in Amer Fort/Haathi Gaon in Jaipur in Rajasthan. Whilst wholeheartedly appreciating the end
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Elephants cause havoc in Chhattisgarh's Marwahi forest belt, locals livi
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A herd of four wild elephants has destroyed Chhattisgarh's Marwahi Forest Division by damaging houses, triggering panic and fear among local villagers. The locals of the affected area complained that the Marwahi Beat guards did nothing and no early warnings were given to them.
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MP cabinet approves over Rs 47 cr plan for management of wild elephants
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The comprehensive plan focuses on areas within protected zones where elephants are known to move or reside, as well as regions outside such zones. It includes provisions for the safety and monitoring of wild elephants, as well as habitat management and development.
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Aaranyak installs solar street lights in 16 Human-Elephant Conflict hit vi
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
These solar streetlights are expected to help villagers residing in HEC hotspots in Goalpara and WGH landscapes to sight wild elephants at night from a safe distance so that they can either avoid coming too close to these animals or retreat to safer places in time.
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Priyanka Gandhi raises concern over man-animal conflict in Wayanad
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra raised the issue of man-animal conflict in Wayanad, where 90 people have been affected in the last year. She requested an increase in compensation for victims, particularly farmers, following an attack by wild elephants. This marks her first question in Parliament. Read More
Assam: Anti-elephant seasonal solar fence helps Mirza farmers reap good ha
Updated : 1 year, 9 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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BSF personnel on Indo-Bangladesh border sensitised to deal with wild eleph
Updated : 1 year, 9 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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'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 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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