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Mahouts ready a captive elephant for safaris in Kaziranga National Park. Image by SeethaG via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Elephant’s death spotlights conditions in safari tourism

Nabarun Guha 13 Jan 2026
A train station in Assam. Experts say that elephant–train collisions are not new to people in the Kampur subdivision in Nagaon. In 2016, four elephants were mowed down by a train, close to the spot of the recent accident. Representative image by Himanshum14 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Jumbo deaths on tracks expose gaps in wildlife safety

Nabarun Guha 31 Dec 2025

DNA-based elephant census sets new baseline

Arathi Menon 24 Oct 2025

Rainfall, acreage influence community adoption of elephant mitigation measures, says study

Simrin Sirur 13 Oct 2025

Looking at human-wildlife conflict through a data-first lens

Nikhil Sreekandan 7 Oct 2025
Elephants raid paddy fields at night in Jhargham district as farmers watch. Image by Human & Environment Alliance League.

Fragmented forests and human disturbances create stress in Asian elephants

Shweta Yogi 1 Oct 2025
Representative image of elephant herd by Nissan Sharma via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Expanding elephant range fuels human-wildlife conflict

Sneha Mahale 18 Sep 2025
Elephants emerge from the forest in Wayanad. Image by M.K. Ramdas.

Intensifying efforts to tackle human animal conflict, a state-specific disaster

Saritha S. Balan 11 Sep 2025
Representative image by Yathin S Krishnappa via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Supreme Court orders investigation into Vantara

Simrin Sirur 27 Aug 2025
Elephants and people constantly overlap , leading to human-elephant conflict in the districts of Hassan, Kodagu, and Chikkamagaluru. Traditional mitigation methods like direct translocation or permanent captivity often fail, leading to the innovation of the soft release centre. Image by Vinod Krishnan.

Experts conflicted over the hard decision to soft release problem jumbos

Arathi Menon 13 May 2025
Nepali village wild elephants conflict

A border village learns to live with migratory elephants

Deepak Adhikari 13 Feb 2025

Your Environment This Week: Social sciences for conservation, Nuanced human-elephant interactions and Tarantulas

Mongabay India 10 Jan 2025

Even amid conflict, nuanced narratives of reverence and empathy for the elephant prevail

Nabarun Guha 9 Jan 2025

Your Environment This Week: Tigers in the hood, indigenous cattle, Rooftop farming

Mongabay India 29 Nov 2024

Genomes map elephant populations, history

Arathi Menon 1 Nov 2024

Your Environment This Week: Citizen science improves scientific knowledge, Mahouts of Kaziranga, Fishing cat population grows

Mongabay India 11 Oct 2024
Mahouts and their elephants at Kaziranga National Park. Image by SeethaG via Wikimedia Commons [CC BY-SA 4.0].

The courage and legacy of mahouts in Kaziranga

Nabarun Guha 7 Oct 2024

The feral elephants of the Andaman Islands

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 10 Jul 2024

A new handbook recommends how to avoid elephant deaths on roads, rail tracks

Arathi Menon 9 May 2024

New rules spell giant troubles for jumbos

K.A. Shaji 23 Apr 2024