Myanmar communists take in liberated elephants as battle against junta rages
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Myanmar communists take in liberated elephants as battle against junta rages

The Hindu  

Communist rebels battling Myanmar's junta have taken in 138 elephants as fighting rages in the jungles and scrubland around Mandalay. Others have been taken as spoils in territory captured by the Communist Party of Burma as it battles the military and its 2021 coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government. "We were worried that if no one took control of them, these elephants would fall into the hands of traffickers," said Ni Ni Kyaw, the general secretary of the CPB's People's Liberation Army. The resulting military crackdown reignited clashes with long-established ethnic minority armed groups, as well as newly formed pro-democracy "People's Defence Forces".

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MLA wants Karnataka government to allow shooting at elephants entering farm land
1 week, 3 days ago

MLA wants Karnataka government to allow shooting at elephants entering farm land

India Today  

Harish Poonja, a BJP MLA from Karnataka’s Belthangady constituency, made a request on the Legislative Assembly floor. Discussing the challenges faced by farmers due to wild elephants destroying their crops, Poonja said: “Give a chance to the farmers. There is a law and as an MLA you have to make people understand what that law is,” Khandre told Poonja regarding …

Real-Time Monitoring of Wild Asian Elephants in Xishuangbanna, China
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Real-Time Monitoring of Wild Asian Elephants in Xishuangbanna, China

China Daily  

Real-time monitoring of Asian elephants near Xishuangbanna, China, using infrared cameras and drones has helped to ensure the safety of the animals and the well-being of the local community. The system, which covers 38 areas where elephants are known to appear, uses AI image recognition to identify and track the animals in real-time. Rangers monitor the elephants and prevent conflicts …

Learning to live with elephants
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Learning to live with elephants

China Daily  

A ranger prepares a drone for a monitoring task. As an insurance specialist from China Pacific Property Insurance's Xishuangbanna branch, Lyu often has to inspect the aftermath of the farmland destroyed by the elephants to determine the exact economic losses. Since Feb 23, protocols on restoring the Asian elephants' habitats, elephant rescue, reintroducing rescued elephants to the wild, and the …

After Namibia, why Zimbabwe is preparing to kill 200 majestic elephants
3 months ago

After Namibia, why Zimbabwe is preparing to kill 200 majestic elephants

Firstpost  

Zimbabwe, home to around 100,000 elephants—the second-largest population after Botswana—is facing an elephant overpopulation crisis amid a severe drought. It maintains ecosystem balance and ensures remaining wildlife thrives.” Zimbabwe has “more elephants than it needs”, the environment minister Sithembiso Nyoni said in parliament on Wednesday as the country shall soon proceed with its first elephant cull in 40 years. Here’s …

Namibia to slaughter more than 80 elephants as protesters call it a ‘colossal disaster’
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Namibia to slaughter more than 80 elephants as protesters call it a ‘colossal disaster’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Setting out regions where the elephants will be killed, …

Chilli bombs and honeybees: Weapons in Tanzania’s human-elephant conflict
6 months, 1 week ago

Chilli bombs and honeybees: Weapons in Tanzania’s human-elephant conflict

Al Jazeera  

Across Africa, growing populations and shrinking habitats are putting people and wildlife on a collision course. The kids are growing – they’ve finished school but they don’t have jobs.” Across Tanzania, an East African country bursting with jungles and wildlife, expanding human populations are encroaching more and more on wildlife spaces, putting people on a collision course with roaming animals …

Heartbreak in Zimbabwe park: Elephants’ desperate hunt for water
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Heartbreak in Zimbabwe park: Elephants’ desperate hunt for water

Al Jazeera  

Storm clouds are finally gathering over Zimbabwe’s biggest animal reserve, but it has come too late for more than 110 elephants that have died in a searing, extended drought. There is little that Simba Marozva and other rangers at the Hwange National Park can do except cut the tusks off the rotting corpses before poachers find them. With the black …

Almost two-thirds of elephant habitat lost across Asia, study finds
1 year, 7 months ago

Almost two-thirds of elephant habitat lost across Asia, study finds

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “My worry is that we are going to reach a tipping point in which cultures of mutual non-confrontation toward one another get replaced by cultures of antagonism and violence – by both species … We have to de-escalate this situation,” said de Silva, who is also founder and president of Trunks and …

Watch: People run as angry elephant goes on rampage in West Bengal, tramples vehicles
1 year, 9 months ago

Watch: People run as angry elephant goes on rampage in West Bengal, tramples vehicles

India TV News  

Viral News: A video going viral on social media captures an elephant on a rampage in West Bengal's Hooghly district. The footage, which appears to be recorded from a CCTV camera outside a shop or residence, shows numerous people lined up outside a medical store in West Bengal's Arambagh. Several netizens compared the clip to wild animals including elephants going …

Elephants damage crops in forested hamlets in AP\'s Palamaner mandal
1 year, 9 months ago

Elephants damage crops in forested hamlets in AP\'s Palamaner mandal

Deccan Chronicle  

TIRUPATI: A herd of elephants created a ruckus in Diguva Marumuru village and the surrounding hamlets under Kolamasanpalli panchayat in Palamaner constituency during the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. The herd ravaged banana plantations and other crops across large stretches of land and stormed towards the bustling crowd of locals, who then rushed into fields to drive the animals …

Thailand’s out-of-work elephants are going online for their money
2 years, 2 months ago

Thailand’s out-of-work elephants are going online for their money

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Mahouts with 53-year-old male elephant …

Elephant menace: Villagers live under constant fear in Chittoor
2 years, 11 months ago

Elephant menace: Villagers live under constant fear in Chittoor

Deccan Chronicle  

TIRUPATI: The elephant menace has once again become a major worry in the tri-state junction areas like the Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary in Kuppam, Palamaner, Punganur, Bangarupalem mandal and the Chittoor west ranges, flanked by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Villagers said that around 10 elephants, which were camping in the nearby forest area, ventured into human habitations and destroyed crops on …

A herd of China’s wandering elephants is garnering international attention after 500-kilometre trek
3 years, 6 months ago

A herd of China’s wandering elephants is garnering international attention after 500-kilometre trek

Firstpost  

Beijing: Already famous at home, China’s wandering elephants are now becoming international stars. Major global media are chronicling the herd’s more than yearlong, 500-kilometer trek from their home in a wildlife reserve in mountainous southwest Yunnan province to the outskirts of the provincial capital of Kunming. The elephants have been trending for days on China’s Weibo microblogging service with photos …

Elephant herd in China on the move again after taking a break
3 years, 6 months ago

Elephant herd in China on the move again after taking a break

The Independent  

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Wandering elephants on edge of China city, now closing roads
3 years, 6 months ago

Wandering elephants on edge of China city, now closing roads

The Independent  

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China watches on as a herd of elephants wanders from town to town, causing over $1 million in damage
3 years, 6 months ago

China watches on as a herd of elephants wanders from town to town, causing over $1 million in damage

ABC  

For more than a month, 15 elephants including three calves have dominated China's domestic media as they marched through towns and villages with no clear destination in sight. Key points: China has 1 per cent, or about 300, of the world's wild Asian elephants Their habitat is largely confined to the southern parts of Yunnan Officials are trying to lure …

A farmers’ struggle in Sri Lanka, siding with elephants
3 years, 10 months ago

A farmers’ struggle in Sri Lanka, siding with elephants

The Hindu  

With rows of Sri Lankan flags fluttering in the morning breeze, it was not hard to spot the Independence Day event on Thursday in Walsapugala village, in the southern Hambantota district. “What does an Independence Day mean, when neither our farmers nor our elephants are free?” Mr. Samarawickrama’s organisation, and some 80 other farmer groups in the district, have been …

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