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

Team 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

Team 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

Team 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

Walls come down to make way for elephants

Nabarun Guha 3 Apr 2024

[Explainer] What are wildlife corridors?

Divya Kilikar 1 Apr 2024

[Interview] Richie Mehta on addressing the elephant in the room in ‘Poacher’

Priyanka Shankar 12 Mar 2024

[Commentary] Ambiguity on fund allocation shrouds Project Tiger and Project Elephant merger

Akshay Chettri, Ishika Patodi 23 Jan 2024

Problems maximise for Elephas maximus in Karnataka

Arathi Menon 29 Dec 2023
Elephants in Wayanad. Photos by Anoop N.R.

Wayanad is summer home for elephants, says a study

Arathi Menon 16 Oct 2023

Kerala needs long-term plans, not quick fixes, for human-elephant conflict

Asha Prakash 14 Jul 2023

The art and science of elephant whispering

Max Martin 2 Jun 2023
Feeding an elephant calf. Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa.

The hidden side of human-elephant conflicts: orphaned calves

Arathi Menon 24 May 2023

[Commentary] A story of two mothers from a human-elephant conflict zone in Assam

Sayan Banerjee 30 Jan 2023

Drones, thermal cameras track animal movement to reduce conflict with humans in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli

Saurabh Katkurwar 30 Sep 2022