Scientists use changes in DNA as a type of clock to estimate how long two species have been separated. Researchers found that ...

Popular actress Jaya Ahsan has expressed concern over film shooting in forest areas after a recent wild elephant attack disrupted the production of a movie in Sherpur's Nalitabari upazila, near the ...

A century ago up to 12 million of the world's heaviest land animal roamed the continent. Today, they number about 500 000, if forest elephants - a sub-species - are included. Despite a 1990 ban on ...

But that day, the epidemic took a backseat to her racing imagination. “It was just a really big forest elephant,” she laughed. “We don’t have dinosaurs here, although it’s easy to ...

The ethogram has taken on added urgency with the recent International Union for Conservation of Nature listing of African savanna and forest elephants as separate and endangered species.

the government would soon extend elephant profiling to all the forest divisions across the state. Profiling involves noting the physical characteristics and assigning a name to a wild elephant to ...

The Forest Department has launched efforts to expand profiling of wild elephants to all forest divisions with elephant presence, data of which will be used for mitigating negative interactions ...

The forest department officials had taken the driver into custody in connection with the investigation into the death of a wild elephant by electrocution in Konni. “What a shameless act.

In some of the best-documented cases to date, the study shows the elephant population in the Okapi Faunal Reserve – one of the last strongholds of forest elephants in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies Asian elephants as endangered, with fewer than 50,000 remaining in the wild. African savanna elephants were recently reclassified ...

Nagpur: A 65-year-old woman, Savita Tulshiram Dandare, was critically injured after being attacked by two wild elephants near Bhansi village in Gadchiroli district on Sunday evening.The incident ...