Order of the High Court of Kerala in the matter of Sangita Iyer Vs Guruvayur Devasom & Others dated 17/02/2025. The Kerala High Court directed the Deputy Administrator (Livestock) of Guruvayoor Devaswom to file a detailed affidavit explaining the procedures being followed in Guruvayur Devaswom for booking and transporting elephants …
A SEVEN-year-old female elephant and a four-month-old male calf were killed when they came in contact with a low-slung naked electrical wire at Parambi-kulam Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu. They were part of a herd of about 20 elephants. Despite the huge crowd that had gathered at the spot of …
Harvest of terror Come harvest time and tense villagers begin preparing for the next elephant raid Like the other farmers, Durlabh Rajbhansu is afraid. As harvesting season approaches, the people of Nopam, a tiny village near Tezpur in northern Assam, steel themselves for the worst. For the last 10 years, …
• The Punjab government has decided to introduce the study of environment, with major stress on bird and wildlife, as a course in the state universities. Informed official sources recently announced that chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has asked the state ministry for forests and wildlife to call a meeting …
Pollution could be the cause of a distressing disease that is killing African elephants by paralysing their trunks. Experts from the uk have been called to investigate the disease, known as flaccid trunk paralysis, that leaves animals unable to feed. The origin of the disease is yet not known. However, …
The wild elephants that once roamed freely over southern China, retreated long ago to the dense tropical rain forests which cover the mountains near the nation's borders with Myanmar (previously Burma) and Laos. The dwindling elephant population that now survives has been further ravaged in recent years by poachers eager …
A photograph of a dead elephant, with its tusks and toenails ripped out, recently jolted Bangladesh out of its indifference towards poaching of these near-extinct wild Asian elephants. Worse still, the tusker belonged to the Eidgadlife sanctuary, one of the country's few remaining elephant "refuges'. An investigation has been initiated …
Despite warnings from conservationists, Kaziranga became the unfortunate scene for the worst human-animal conflict over habitat in recent years. The angry people of Kaliabor, a small village some 200 km east of the state capital Guahati along the fringes of the Kaziranga national park, went on an indefinite hunger strike …
the indefinite hunger strike of villagers around Kaziranga, Assam, against the growing number of attacks on their fields and dwellings by elephants is another example of the people's wrath at being made scapegoats in the name of conservation. An apathetic government and blinker-wearing wildlife managers are letting things run out …
the endangered Asian elephants have a new friend in usa . A proposal to spend up to us $25 million to conserve the asian elephants could go a long way towards saving them from extinction. "It is clear that active intervention is necessary,' says Mary Pearl, executive director of the …
A pepper spray will be used to deter wild elephants from raiding farms. The spray can is being developed by Loki Osborn, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge, UK and Jack Birochak, an inventor based at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Osborn says that elephants destroy thousands of dollars' worth of …
The population of elephants in Sri Lanka is falling rapidly as its natural habitat is absorbed for agriculture. Wildlife conservation officials say that the island which had about 12,000 elephants in 1900, now has only 2,500 elephants. This year in the northwest province alone, some 18 elephants have been killed. …
efforts to introduce a birth control pill in elephants have been suspended in South Africa after the normally orderly herds of the pachyderms were thrown into confusion. The new measures for population control in the overcrowded Kruger National Park are being tried out after the controversial culling of elephants was …
According to recent reports, as many as 50 elephants were killed by poachers in Kerala over the past three to four months. Forest officials in Wynad suspected the number to be even higher. They admitted that it was easier for the poachers to escape across the state boundaries as there …
Recently, six Thai elephants gave a big trunks-up to the first packaged food substituted for the rapidly disappearing plants they are used to eat, said a zoo official in Bangkok. "The elephants at Bangkok's Dusit zoo all ate with gusto when fed for several months with chewable tablets made of …
The Indian delegation to CITES strongly opposed the list- ing of the African elephant in Appendix II and reopening trade in ivory, perceived as a threat to the Asian elephant. Ashok Kumar of the Wildlife Protection Society of India, who was part of the Indian delegation, says that carvers in …
Almost 80 per cent of the elephant range in Africa lies outside protected areas. Human-elephant conflicts are high, particularly in southern and central Africa where both the populations are high (see graph: Competing for resources). The conflicts are serious but more localised in areas where there are a smaller number …
The consensus on allowing restricted trade in ivory was confirmed by a secret ballot, and angeredjhe protectionist groups, which had been trying to 4m- twist nations which were in favour of lifting the ban. The secret ballot also met with considerable opposition. But the issue had become sensitive - with …
The less fortunate have had their say, and elephants must pay their way to conservation. Three southern African nations -Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia -have been given the go-ahead to trade in elephant products at the 10th Conference of Parties (COP) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), …
Every year, more than 60 people are trampled to death by elephants in the forests of West Bengal. According to forest officials at Jalpaiguri, 616 people were killed by rampaging elephants, bisons and leopards in the state during 1986-96. Most of these casualties (502) have occurred in north Bengal. Dwindling …
An elephant story, and that of family values gone haywire! Cow elephants in the Kruger National Park were introduced to contraceptive pills to cut down their population into small and happy families. But the outcome was a mammoth problem - elephantine free love resulted in a jumbo-sized social and sexual …
