Use radars to stop jumbo deaths on tracks
Asks MoEF To Map Elephant Migration Route First, the proposal was to build flyovers on railway tracks to allow elephants safe passage. Then realization dawned that elephants may be unwilling to take
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Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding use of elephants in religious functions, processions and other events, 29/03/2016
<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 29/03/2016 regarding use of elephants in religious functions,
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South Sudan Elephants in Grave Danger as War Rages, WCS Says
South Sudan’s wildlife faces a critical few months as drier weather raises the risk of poaching of elephants and other species already threatened by almost a year of civil war, conservationists said.
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Esmond Bradley Martin: Ivory investigator killed in Kenya
One of the world's leading investigators of the illegal trade in ivory and rhino horn has been killed in Kenya. Esmond Bradley Martin, 75, was found in his Nairobi home on Sunday with a stab wound to
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Exploiting Africa's wildlife: the `Big 5' and `Little 5'
A new report finds that both legal and illegal trade are detrimental to the conservation of Africa’s iconic wildlife. Released by the London-based NGO World Animal Protection to coincide with World Animal
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Census of Animals, 26/04/2016
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Census of Animals, 26/04/2016. Wild animal census of iconic species like Tiger, Elephant, Rhino and Lions are carried out by the respective State/UT Governments. However,
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Elephant poaching deaths reach tipping point in Africa
Africa's elephants have reached a tipping point: more are being killed each year than are being born, a study suggests. Researchers believe that since 2010 an average of nearly 35,000 elephants have been
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Trading Faces: A snapshot of the online ivory trade in Indonesia, Thailand and Viet Nam with an update in 2019
<p>Ivory trade is rife on social media in Indonesia, Thailand and Viet Nam says a TRAFFIC study which found thousands of ivory items in trade during a month in 2016, and in a 2019 update. The study recorded
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Extremism, elephant poaching linked, says study
Does growth in Left-wing extremism have a bearing on the increase in elephant deaths in Odisha? Yes, if senior IPS officer Binay Kumar Behera's research on the issue is to be believed. "Possibly, militancy
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Elephant route block sparks fear of conflict
Odisha Erects Fences, Herds Pushed To Bengal Bengal and Odisha are in a tussle over the Dalma elephants again. With the locals in Odisha digging trenches along its border with West Midnapore to thwart
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Elephant corridors at BRT in jeopardy
Three elephant corridors are in jeopardy due to the acquisition of forest land and increased area of human settlements. Elephants in the BRT tiger reserve in Chamarajnagar. The state has nine elephant corridors out of which three are present in the Biligiriranganatha Tiger reserve forest.
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Elephants in captivity are a stressed lot, say experts
MYSORE: A study carried out by the scientists at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) Hyderabad has indicated that elephants held in captivity in mutts, zoos and other places are living under
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Four rhinos killed in Kenya's worst poaching attack in years
Poaching across sub-Saharan Africa is on the rise as armed criminal gangs kill elephants for tusks and rhinos for horns, usually to be shipped to Asia for use in ornaments and medicines. The poaching on
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Greenpeace says govt stalling elephant reserve to aid mining
Accusing Chhattisgarh government of turning a blind eye to human-elephant conflict, Greenpeace India, a global NGO, urged the Centre and state government to avoid auctioning forest land for mining activity.
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Elephants still being tortured in circuses: PETA
Elephants are still “tortured” in circuses despite a decision by Animal Welfare Board of India last year to ban their registration for performing in such shows, an animal rights group has alleged. “AWBI,
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Elephant poaching: thousands march worldwide for wildlife protection
Demonstrators in 136 cities and towns across six continents joined the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos Thousands marched in Africa and around the world Saturday to pressure governments to do more
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100,000 killed in 3 years, Africa may have no elephants in a few decades
<p>Ivory consumption is unsustainable and is causing a dramatic decline in the number of African elephants, according to a new study, “Illegal killing for ivory drives global decline in African elephants”,
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Cruel trade in Asian elephants threatens survival- report
Wild elephants are being held in horrific conditions in Myanmar by smugglers looking to resume a lucrative trade, a report says. It claims the animals, mainly calves, are being brutally treated as they
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Fencing elephants: The hidden politics of wildlife fencing in Laikipia, Kenya
<p>Conservation is a fundamentally spatial pursuit. Human–elephant conflict (HEC), in particular crop-raiding, is a significant and complex conservation problem wherever elephants and people occupy
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Elephant killings in Mozambique happening on ‘industrialised’ scale
Elephant poaching is happening on an unprecedented and “industrialised” scale in Mozambique, environmentalists have warned, after 22 of the animals were killed for their tusks in the first two weeks of