Stop displaying elephants at the Sonepur fair

The elephant is India’s National Heritage Animal and displaying it at Sonepur only encourages the brutal and illegal trade in wild …

How these two remote districts in Andhra are tackling wild elephant intrusions

The forest department in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram, which border Odisha, are doing their best to manage pachyderms that regularly stray from …

Female elephant dies from electrocution in Odisha

The body was spotted by local resident who in turn informed forest officials

CITES CoP 2019: Resolution seeking closure of domestic ivory markets not adopted

30 African countries panned EU, Japan for not closing legal ivory markets

Zimbabwe sold 97 sub-adult elephants to China, UAE

Cash-strapped southern African country earned $2.7 million

A first for large African mammals: DNA used to count Gabon’s endangered forest elephants

There are 95,110 forest elephants in Gabon according to analysis of DNA extracted from dung

Human-driven speciation: A peek into how we may alter the morphology of African elephants

Anthropogenic activities such as global warming, poaching, mining, deforestation and noise pollution will form a more wrinkly, hairier, tuskless, …

Preserving India's pachyderms

The recently-concluded 'Gaj Mahotsav’ in Delhi celebrated the Indian Elephant, an animal that is fast losing its habitat in India

A wild chase

Based on a 2015 probe that bust a major ivory smuggling racket in india, ‘Poacher’ provides a rare glimpse into the work of forest …

Activists show lacuna in Assam PCCF’s notification on elephant microchips to prevent illegal transport

Microchips are issued for stolen or illegally captured elephants too; a captive elephant with a microchip may be a wild-caught one, they say

This World Wildlife Day let’s take a look at wildlife crimes in India

The Union government has cut the funds released under three flagship wildlife schemes even though poaching remains rampant

New study shows that big mammals suffer brain damage in captivity

Caging large mammals and putting them on display is undeniably cruel from a neural perspective, it says

Hundreds of elephants are mysteriously dying in Botswana – a conservationist explains what we know

Poaching, revenge killing by locals and natural death do not seem to be the case. Could it then be disease? The information is still …

India bats for safekeeping elephant habitats, but is it ready itself?

India proposes putting Asian / Indian elephants in Appendix I of CMS CoP 13 in Gandhinagar

Sambhar tragedy: Are birds second class wildlife, ask experts

Not only are bird species not monitored properly but information about instances of their mass death is suppressed, they allege

India Wildlife Week: Odisha’s report card has hardly anything to show

While other states are implementing viable wildlife management plans, the Odisha government is lagging way behind

The Earth is not for humans alone, says NGT over Deepor Beel

Water body on the outskirts of Guwahati has been facing threats from railway tracks and a municipal solid waste plant

EU's new stand on ivory trade upsets East Africa ahead of key decision

EU officials argue that while the ban on ivory trade is right for some countries, it shouldn't be all-encompassing. It has called on African …

Why are rail projects above scrutiny in India?

While we have “Project Elephant”, India fails to protect the animals from being mowed down by trains

Elephant shot, tusks hacked off in Odisha’s Dhenkanal forest division

Poachers armed with guns drive away forest guards

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (May 27- June 2)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Odisha lost 179 elephants to electrocution since 2000

The state lost 102 pachyderms over the last 8 years alone, data shows

Centre notifies India’s 31st elephant reserve in Tamil Nadu

The new reserve will be spread over an area of 1,197 square kilometres in Agasthiyamalai

On same day, 3 elephants die in 2 Odisha districts

The development has raised concerns among forest officials and animal conservationists  

Kenya’s first wildlife census report: 5 species critically endangered

The report recommends a population survey every three years and annual budgets for monitoring and management of wildlide