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A female Russian photographer at the centre of a scandal over painting an elephant bright pink is 'facing death threats'. Julia Buruleva, 47, has been hit by a storm of protest following the animal's death four months after her controversial shoot. She insists the Indian elephant expired from 'old age' - but admits she was warned her project was contentious when she sought 'half naked' local models to pose in pink in the stunt. The Russian woman has now launched - with mixed results - an onli ...Read More >
India's first DNA-based elephant census reveals a nearly 25% population drop over eight years, estimating 22,446 elephants. The new scientific method highlights shrinking forests and intensifying human-elephant conflict as primary threats, with habitat loss being the main concern. Poaching has declined, but fragmentation and development are fueling conflict. India's first nationwide DNA-based elephant census revealed a nearly 25% drop in the country's wild elephant population over eight years, ...Read More >
BENGALURU: As the state forest department is facing a different sort of man-elephant conflict in the Dasara festive season, the department has been getting applications from multiple religious institutions and political offices to send camp elephants for Dasara processions. The department got requests from Hubballi and Tumkuru, apart from the usual to send camp elephants to Mysuru, Nanjangud, Srirangapatna and Shivamogga. Principal chief Conservator of Forests, PC Rai, had sought details of ele ...Read More >
Karnataka, India -- What began as a tourist's attempt at a daring wildlife selfie ended in chaos, injury, and public outrage. On Sunday, Forty-year-old R. Basavaraju entered a restricted forest area near a temple in Karnataka, where he encountered a wild elephant feeding by the roadside. Ignoring safety rules, Basavaraju approached the animal with his phone in hand. Witnesses say the situation took a dangerous turn when his camera flash startled the elephant. "It immediately became agitated," ...Read More >
The workshop will be jointly organised by the Union environment ministry and the Tamil Nadu Forest Department. It will be inaugurated by Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav in the presence of his deputy Kirti Vardhan Singh. India is home to nearly 60 per cent of the world's wild elephant population, with 33 elephant reserves and 150 identified elephant corridors, according to the 2023 Report on Elephant Corridors in India. The last population estimation exercise in 2017 counted 29,964 e ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Exploring scientific solutions to reduce human-elephant conflict across Karnataka, the forest department Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for landscape-level conservation of Asian elephants. Renowned ecologist and elephant expert from IISc, Prof Raman Sukumar, and Karnataka chief wildlife warden Prabhash Chandra Ray signed the commencement of the Rs 4.7-crore project, fully funded by the forest department.Admitting an incre ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Jul 15 (PTI) Karnataka Minister Eshwar Khandre on Tuesday said the state government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to use modern technology for conserving elephant corridors and habitats, aiming to reduce rising human-elephant conflict and protect crops of farmers living near forest fringes. The Forest Department, in collaboration with the IISC, is set to implement a five-year collaborative project titled "Landscape-Level Manage ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 5 (ANI): The Meghalaya Forest Department organised an outreach programme for the personnel of the 193rd Border Security Force (BSF) Battalion at Ranikor, Gumaghat Border Outpost (BOP) on the Indo-Bangla border in South-West Khasi Hills (SWKH) district. The main objectives of the outreach programme was to sensitise the BSF personnel on how to deal with herds of wild elephants they often encounter while discharging duty on the international border as well as raise a ...Read More >
Bhagalpur: Tight security arrangements have been made across Bhagalpur district for Muharram. The district administration has prohibited playing of disc jockey (DJ) and displaying of banned weapons during the Muharram processions, in view of the district being a communally sensitive. Magistrates and static police forces have been deployed at 416 places and police patrolling has been intensified in different areas under the supervision of SHOs of police stations in the district."Ten control rooms ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 5 (ANI): The Meghalaya Forest Department organised an outreach programme for the personnel of the 193rd Border Security Force (BSF) Battalion at Ranikor, Gumaghat Border Outpost (BOP) on the Indo-Bangla border in South-West Khasi Hills (SWKH) district. The main objectives of the outreach programme was to sensitise the BSF personnel on how to deal with herds of wild elephants they often encounter while discharging duty on the international border as well as raise a ...Read More >
Garhwa: A group of wild elephants caused extensive damage by destroying houses and consuming stored grains across numerous villages in the Chinia block of Garhwa district. On Tuesday, divisional forest officer (Garhwa south) Ebin Benny Abraham said that the elephants were entering the villages in search of food, forcing residents to remain vigilant throughout nights. "The forest department has deployed a team to keep the tuskers at bay during night," the DFO said. The elephants have destroyed ...Read More >
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