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Kenya’s farmers turn to beehive fences to keep crop-raiding elephants away, creating a surprising path toward human-elephant coexistenceDedicated to researching elephant ecology and behavior, Save the Elephants operates vital research facilities. Their Samburu research stati...
In 2024, study found how 365 beehives helped Kenyan farmers keep elephants away from cropsA nine-year study explored beehive fences deterring elephants from farms near Tsavo East National Park. These fences successfully reduced c...
Elephant encounters: Scientists tracked elephants for 19 years in Botswana and found that year-long droughts pushed them toward human settlements, raising the risk of dangerous encountersAfrican elephants are increasingly venturing closer to human settlements as prolonged droughts persist, a new study reveals. Research from ...
Watch out! Elephant ahead: Why Indian Railways is turning to tech to save the gentle giantsEvery year, over a dozen elephants get killed on India’s railway tracks. Govt is now racing to protect the beast with a mix of new technolo...
Bio-liquid repellent that helps the farmer save the crop from animal attack
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka scraps monkey business planThe toque macaque is endemic to Sri Lanka and common on the island of 22 million people but is classed as endangered on the International U...
When wild jumbos make life miserable in the 'Kashmir of the South'As the female elephant tried to break into the tin-roofed building after destroying its wooden-panel door, the terrified vendor and his fam...
The new social media stars: China's wandering elephantsThe elephants have been trending for days on China's Weibo microblogging service.
No takers for 'white' elephantsForest officials are now at their wit's end to tackle the increasing human-elephant conflict in Karnataka.
Hamlets in Buxa responsible for decline in tiger populations: Forest MinisterThe minister said Buxa's environment does not favour the tigers now because small hamlets have surrounded the forests.
Apeejay Tea and WWF-India tie up for joint management project to end human-elephant conflictAs per the plan, a matrix will be developed to calculate the quantum of loss that is usually borne by the tea estates on account of damage ...
- Human, elephant conflict takes a new dimension
The eerie silence at Bankura's Borjora forest is broken by the sound of a forest jeep being brought to a sudden stop.Forest guard Ganesh Sa...
Wild tension in KarnatakaEvery year in Karnataka, around 30 people get killed and hundreds get injured due to attacks by wild animals, most of them elephants.
Indian dolphin, elephant among top 100 mammals facing extinction: Zoological society of LondonThe Zoological Society of London have for the first time scored the world's mammals according to how Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally E...
Sixty elephants creating havoc at Arunachal villageA herd of 60 elephants has been creating havoc at Mer village in East Siang district since the last couple of days damaging crops.
Scam unearthed in installation of Mayawati's jumbo statues at dalit memorialsThe matter came to light when Agra-based Madal Lal lodged an FIR against a contractor, Aditya Agarwal, from Lucknow who had ordered for the...
- Reduce man-animal conflict deaths: NGOs
Welcoming the 3 lakh compensation announced in the state government’s budget for victims of man-animal conflict, NGOs called for the proced...
- In these villages of north Bengal, the forest dept stands in the way of justice
In 2006, Parliament passed an act conferring crucial rights on forest dwellers. The then Left Front government subverted this to deny 1.5 l...
- 'Dear Ganesha, don't send rogue jumbos'
Elephants are on a collision course with people in the villages of Chhattisgarh.
- Two elephants found dead in Sathyamangalam jungles
As summer scorches the forests in Tamil Nadu, two adult elephants have died of “exhaustion” in the last four days in the dry Sathyamangalam...