Male elephant calf found dead in Valparai estate
1 year ago

Male elephant calf found dead in Valparai estate

The Hindu  

An elephant calf was found dead in a forest patch inside an estate in Valparai on Tuesday. The elephant calf was found dead in a shola forest patch inside field number 15 of Pachamalai estate, which falls under the jurisdiction of Valparai forest range of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, around 11 a.m. on Tuesday. A team headed by Valparai forest range officer G. Venkatesh rushed to the spot and examined the carcass. ATR’s Forest veterinary officer E. Vijayaraghavan and Veterinary Assistant Surgeon Senthilnathan from Valparai conducted the post-mortem on the carcass in the presence of Ganesh Raghunathan, Senior Programme Manager with the Nature Conservation Foundation, and Forest Department staff from Valparai range.

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Elephant electrocuted by overhead wire in MP
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Elephant electrocuted by overhead wire in MP

Deccan Chronicle  

Maihar: A wild elephant was on Friday found electrocuted in Maihar district of Madhya Pradesh after apparently coming in contact with a high-tension overhead electricity wire, a forest official said.The dead tusker was found in Mukundpur range, four kilometres from the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve where ten wild elephants died recently after consuming some poisonous substance, he said. The elephant appeared …

Chhattisgarh: Elephant found dead in Balrampur district; probe on
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1 month, 1 week ago

Chhattisgarh: Elephant found dead in Balrampur district; probe on

Hindustan Times  

An elephant was found dead at a paddy farm in Chhattisgarh’s Balrampur district, a forest official said on Tuesday. Forest officials said that the male elephant was found dead in Murka village near Wadrafnagar forest range on Monday evening. In a similar case from the state, three elephants including a calf were electrocuted to death in a forest area in …

Elephant Calf Dies in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, Raising Toll to 11
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Elephant Calf Dies in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, Raising Toll to 11

Deccan Chronicle  

BHOPAL: An elephant calf, separated from its herd and spotted in the buffer zone of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh, died of suspected intestine infection on Sunday, a forest officer said. The exact cause of death could however be ascertained in the postmortem report”, divisional forest officer, BTR, P K Verma told this newspaper. Ten elephants, …

20-year-old female elephant found dead in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu
3 months ago

20-year-old female elephant found dead in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu

New Indian Express  

NILGIRIS: A 20-year-old female elephant was found dead at Nelakottai in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve on Sunday. Forest department sources said they suspect the animal may have fallen to death from a height. Field staff of MTR noticed the carcass on Sunday, and postmortem was carried out by veterinary assistant surgeon K Rajesh Kumar on Monday in the presence of Deputy …

14-year-old female elephant electrocuted in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district
3 months, 1 week ago

14-year-old female elephant electrocuted in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district

New Indian Express  

BARIPADA: A female elephant was found dead at an agriculture field in Mayurbhanj district in the early hours of Thursday. Villagers of Kuradik under the Betnoti range spotted the elephant's carcass and informed the forest officials. The DFO said the elephant possibly died due to electrocution since a livewire fence passed through the agriculture field. However, despite the deployment of …

Assam: Elephant carcass found in Kaziranga; officials suspect tiger attack
4 months ago

Assam: Elephant carcass found in Kaziranga; officials suspect tiger attack

Hindustan Times  

Silchar: The forest guards in Assam’s Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve on Thursday said they found the carcass of an adult elephant, suspecting it was killed by tigers. Officials said that after recovering the carcass, they buried it in the forest, and some locals joined in to perform the religious rituals. A large part of our forests was encroached …

20-year-old Makna elephant found dead; forest dept says starvation likely cause
4 months, 3 weeks ago

20-year-old Makna elephant found dead; forest dept says starvation likely cause

Hindustan Times  

A 20-year-old Makna wild elephant was found dead in Hundi village, Kodagu district, on Monday morning likely due to starvation due to a vision defect that left it struggling to find food, forest officials said. Deputy Conservator of Forests in Virajpet B Jagannath said: “The initial investigation suggests that the elephant likely died of starvation probably because its blindness prevented …

Farmer trampled to death by wild elephant in Krishnagiri
5 months ago

Farmer trampled to death by wild elephant in Krishnagiri

New Indian Express  

KRISHNAGIRI : A 45-year-old man died in a wild elephant attack in Pansumandoddi village near Jawalagiri in Krishnagiri district on Thursday. The deceased was D Paramesh, a farmer.He was trampled to death likely by a tuskless male elephant in his farmland around 7 am on Thursday, said a forest department source. Villagers informed the forest and police departments and staged …

Tusker found dead in pond inside forest near Coimbatore
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Tusker found dead in pond inside forest near Coimbatore

The Hindu  

An adult male elephant was found dead in a pond within the limits of the Mettupalayam forest range of the Coimbatore Forest Division on July 10, 2024. Officials said that frontline staff of the Forest Department, who went for a patrol in Nellimalai reserve forest area of the Mettupalayam range, found the carcass in a pond, around 25 metres off …

Elephant calf rescued in Udhagamandalam
6 months ago

Elephant calf rescued in Udhagamandalam

The Hindu  

An elephant calf that got stuck inside a water channel in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve was rescued by the Forest Department staff on Sunday and reunited with its mother. Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu, tweeted videos of the rescue as well as of the calf reuniting with its mother on the platform “X”, formerly …

Carcass of tusker found at Anthiyur in Erode district
6 months ago

Carcass of tusker found at Anthiyur in Erode district

The Hindu  

The carcass of a wild elephant, aged about 20 years, was found near farm land at Anthiyur in Erode district on Tuesday. Villagers at Karumparai found the carcass near the forest boundary coming under Anthiyur Forest Range of Erode Division on Tuesday morning, and alerted Forest Department staff. District Forest Officer Kumili Venkata Appala Naidu who inspected the spot told …

Elephant calf found weak and alone in Erode’s Sathyamangalam forest
6 months, 1 week ago

Elephant calf found weak and alone in Erode’s Sathyamangalam forest

The Hindu  

An elephant calf, aged between two and three years that had been united with an adult female elephant after the death of its mother, was found weak and wandering alone in the Sathyamangalam forest in Erode district. On April 11, a female wild elephant, aged between 45 and 50 years, was found sick at Pudukuiyanur village in Vadavalli, Sathyamangalam, along …

Orphaned and abandoned
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Orphaned and abandoned

New Indian Express  

In March 5, a two-month-old orphan female elephant calf in a fragile condition was rescued by Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve officials in Arepalayam forest. In the wild, elephant calves depend on mother’s milk entirely for at least the first year for nutrition until they are slowly introduced to solid foods like grasses etc. This is where the role of Theppakadu Elephant …

Efforts on to reunite stranded elephant calf with mother near Coimbatore
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Efforts on to reunite stranded elephant calf with mother near Coimbatore

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu Forest Department staff on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, attempted to reunite a stranded wild elephant calf with its mother near Thondamuthur in Coimbatore. Officials said that the four-month-old animal is the calf of a 40-year-old wild elephant that was released into the wild by the Department on June 3, after it was treated for four days for …

Calf, herd members visit ailing female elephant under treatment near Coimbatore
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Calf, herd members visit ailing female elephant under treatment near Coimbatore

The Hindu  

A female wild elephant that the Forest Department has been treating at the Maruthamalai foothills near Coimbatore since May 30 was visited by its four-month-old calf and other elephants late on Saturday. According to the Department, the calf was reunited with its herd around 5.30 a.m. on Saturday, after it followed a juvenile elephant that visited the ailing cow elephant, …

College student dies in elephant attack near Valparai
6 months, 3 weeks ago

College student dies in elephant attack near Valparai

The Hindu  

An 18-year-old youth died in an attack by a wild elephant near Valaparai on Saturday, June 1. Officials attached to the Anamalai Tiger Reserve said Mukesh, a college student, had a close encounter with a wild elephant when he was heading from Puthukad to Sholayar dam through an estate road on a two-wheeler around 6 p.m. According to the Forest …

Elephant found dead, with tusks missing, in T.N.’s Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Elephant found dead, with tusks missing, in T.N.’s Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve

The Hindu  

A wild elephant, aged between 18 and 20 years, was found dead with its tusks missing at the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Talavadi Hills, Erode district, on April 22. During a routine patrol, a Forest Department team found the fully decomposed carcass in a forest near Gumtapuram village in the Talavadi Forest Range of Hasanur Division, and alerted senior officials. …

An elephant mourning its calf blocks traffic in Bandipur
8 months ago

An elephant mourning its calf blocks traffic in Bandipur

The Hindu  

An elephant mourning the death of its calf and guarding the carcass blocked traffic on the highway cutting across Bandipur for a considerable period on Saturday. Though efforts were made to dissuade the female elephant to leave the carcass of the calf it stayed put and blocked the movement of vehicles on National Highway 181 connecting to Mudumalai in Tamil …

Ailing wild elephant dies in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu
8 months, 1 week ago

Ailing wild elephant dies in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

A female wild elephant, aged between 45 and 50 years, that was treated by the Forest Department, died in a forest area at the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, here on Thursday night. During a patrol on Thursday morning, staff found the elephant lying unconscious at Pudukuiyanur village at Vadavalli in Sathyamangalam Forest Range and alerted senior officials. Kulal Yogesh Vilas, Deputy …

Ailing wild elephant being treated at Sathyamangalam
8 months, 1 week ago

Ailing wild elephant being treated at Sathyamangalam

The Hindu  

A team of veterinarians are treating a sick female elephant in a forest area at Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve on Thursday, April 11, 2024. During patrolling, a Forest Department team found the elephant, aged between 45 to 50, lying unconscious at Pudukuiyanur beat at Vadavalli in Sathyamangalam Forest Range and alerted senior officials. It may be recalled that on March 5, …

Elephant calf found abandoned near Coimbatore shifted to Theppakadu camp in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Elephant calf found abandoned near Coimbatore shifted to Theppakadu camp in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

The Hindu  

An elephant calf that was found abandoned near Periyanaickenpalayam in Coimbatore district on April 6, 2024, was taken to the Theppakadu elephant camp in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Nilgiris, on Wednesday, April 10. The decision to move the male calf, aged around three months, to the elephant camp, was taken late on Tuesday, April 9, after a final attempt made …

Ailing elephant that was treated by Forest Department dies in MTR
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Ailing elephant that was treated by Forest Department dies in MTR

The Hindu  

A six-year-old male elephant that was found in a weak state in Masinagudi in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve a few days ago was found dead on Tuesday. The cause of death of the animal could have possibly been exacerbated by the lack of rain in the landscape, leading to the deterioration of health of an already weak animal, Forest Department …

Ailing wild elephant dies in Erode’s Kadambur Hills
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Ailing wild elephant dies in Erode’s Kadambur Hills

The Hindu  

A female wild elephant, aged between 35 and 40 years, being treated by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, died in a forest at the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Erode district on Monday night. During a patrol on Monday morning, a Forest Department team had found the elephant in severe distress, lying unconscious in a trench along the road at Musalmaduvu …

Efforts continue to reunite elephant calf with herd near Coimbatore
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Efforts continue to reunite elephant calf with herd near Coimbatore

The Hindu  

The Forest Department on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, continued efforts to reunite an elephant calf found abandoned on Saturday, April 6, with a herd near Periyanaickenpalayam in Coimbatore district. Field staff rescued the calf and took it to a herd that had come to drink water at a trough in Rayaruthupathi village near Naickenpalayam on Saturday evening. Though a female …

Asian elephants bury their dead, study suggests
9 months, 1 week ago

Asian elephants bury their dead, study suggests

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — Researchers in India have for the first time documented how Asian elephants bury dead calves. While African elephants are known to bury dead calves, this is the first time that the behavior has been documented in Asian elephants, study author Akashdeep Roy, a researcher at the Indian Institute of Science …

Mother elephant dies in STR, calf united with herd
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Mother elephant dies in STR, calf united with herd

New Indian Express  

ERODE: A 40-year-old female elephant that fell unconscious near Bannari inside Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve on Sunday died on Tuesday morning despite intensive treatment. While the sub adult elephant instantaneously mingled with a herd that had arrived at the spot after hearing the cries of the calves, the two-month-old calf kept circling its mother. Supriya Sahu, additional chief secretary of environment …

Ailing wild elephant dies, calf united with herd
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Ailing wild elephant dies, calf united with herd

The Hindu  

A female wild elephant, aged 45-50, that was under treatment for the last two days died in a forest area at the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve near the Bannari – Bhavanisagar road here on Tuesday. Since the veterinarians concluded that the mother elephant would not survive, the Forest Department decided to reunite the calf with its herd and planned an operation. …

Elephants take dead calves to be buried in untrodden paths: Study
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Elephants take dead calves to be buried in untrodden paths: Study

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI Elephants in the eastern Himalayan floodplains bury their calves in a ‘legs upright’ position, a new study has found. Rampant environmental changes and forest destruction push Asian elephants and their African counterparts to explore human spaces to fulfil their dietary and ecological requirements, leading to ‘novel’ elephant behaviours in shared spaces. Their study on “unearthing calf burials among Asian …

Premature elephant calf dies following carnivore attack near Coimbatore
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Premature elephant calf dies following carnivore attack near Coimbatore

The Hindu  

An elephant calf aged around two weeks died following injuries inflicted by a carnivore near Madukkarai in Coimbatore district on Wednesday. As per preliminary findings of the Forest Department and the forest veterinary officer, the deceased elephant calf had a premature birth and it fell ill after suffering wounds inflicted by a carnivore. Field staff of the department spotted the …

Makhna translocated from Pollachi village to Valprai in Anamalai Tiger Reserve found dead
1 year, 1 month ago

Makhna translocated from Pollachi village to Valprai in Anamalai Tiger Reserve found dead

The Hindu  

A makhna that was translocated by the Forest Department from a village near Pollachi to Chinna Kallar in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve near Valparai in July this year was found dead on Sunday. A #makhna that was translocated from a village near #Pollachi to #Valparai in #Coimbatore district in July this year was found on Sunday. Forest Department suspects that …

Zookeeper Death: Attempts to Train Wild Elephant Largely Unsuccessful
1 year, 2 months ago

Zookeeper Death: Attempts to Train Wild Elephant Largely Unsuccessful

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Negligence in training the 40-year-old elephant, Vijay, who was captured in the wild, could have resulted in the death of 23-year-old animal keeper Shahbaz at the Nehru Zoological Park on Saturday, said sources, adding that Vijay had been showing aggressive behaviour for the past 12 years. Three months ago, a special adviser from Chennai who visited the zoo had …

Elephant killed in train-hit incident in Nainital: Forest officials
1 year, 3 months ago

Elephant killed in train-hit incident in Nainital: Forest officials

Hindustan Times  

An elephant was killed in the wee hours on Thursday after being hit by a train on the Ramnagar-Moradabad route near Ampokhra in Ramnagar of Nainital. Carcass of the elephant killed in train hit incident in Ampokhra forest range. This is the second such incident of elephant death due to a train-hit incident within three days reported form the state. …

Elephant carcass exhumed from private estate in Kerala, 4 held
1 year, 5 months ago

Elephant carcass exhumed from private estate in Kerala, 4 held

Hindustan Times  

KOCHI: Forest officials in Kerala exhumed the carcass of a wild male elephant from a private rubber estate based on a tip-off in Thrissur district’s Vazhakkode in a suspected case connected to ivory trade on Friday Kodanad forest range officials arrested 1, detained 3 in connection with an attempted ivory-trade case. ) When forest officials in Machad range excavated the …

Man killed in elephant attack, female elephant found dead near Coimbatore
1 year, 6 months ago

Man killed in elephant attack, female elephant found dead near Coimbatore

The Hindu  

A 57-year-old tribal man was trampled to death by a wild elephant, and a female elephant was found dead in separate incidents near Anaikatti in Coimbatore district on Sunday, June 18, 2023. Female elephant found dead Meanwhile, a female elephant was found dead on poramboke land close to a reserve forest near Anaikatti on Sunday evening. Forest Department staff spotted …

5 forest staff booked for burning elephant carcass in MP
1 year, 7 months ago

5 forest staff booked for burning elephant carcass in MP

Hindustan Times  

Five Madhya Pradesh Forest Department staff stationed at Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve were booked on Thursday under Wild Life Act, 1972 for destroying the evidence of a wild elephant’s death by burning its carcass in November, said officials on Saturday. “The forest officials said they found the semi-decomposed body of the elephant in Chhatwa village of Panpatha buffer zone of Bandhavgarh …

Two elephants found dead in Masinagudi division of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve
1 year, 7 months ago

Two elephants found dead in Masinagudi division of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

The Hindu  

Two elephants were found dead within the limits of the Masinagudi division of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiris district. Post-mortem examination findings and preliminary investigations by the Forest Department suggested that the pachyderms could have died of ageing. In the first case, the carcass of a 60-year-old adult female elephant was found within the limits of Mavanalla station …

Carcass of wild elephant with tusk trimmed found in Bihar’s Kishanganj
1 year, 8 months ago

Carcass of wild elephant with tusk trimmed found in Bihar’s Kishanganj

Hindustan Times  

A wild elephant with one of its tusks trimmed was found dead at Dhanyola village under Dighalbank in Bihar’s Kishanganj along the Indo-Nepal border on Sunday, forest officials said. “Forest officials along with local police have been camping at the site since Sunday as six elephants are roaming around the dead elephant,” he said adding that prima facie it appears …

Elephant calf killed by three tigers in Bandhavgarh: Forest official
1 year, 8 months ago

Elephant calf killed by three tigers in Bandhavgarh: Forest official

Hindustan Times  

A baby wild elephant was reportedly killed by three tigers in Badhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Umaria district on Saturday, said a forest official. Sub-divisional officer of forest Panpatha core of BTR, L Bharti said, “The one-and-a-half-year-old elephant calf got distracted from the herd while drinking water. The carcass of calf was found on Tuesday morning.” Bharti said, “We found pug …

Odisha: Second dead elephant found in 2-day amid 'The Elephant Whisperers' oscars win celebration
1 year, 9 months ago

Odisha: Second dead elephant found in 2-day amid 'The Elephant Whisperers' oscars win celebration

India TV News  

As India is celebrating Oscar win for Kartiki Gonsalves-directed short 'The Elephant Whisperers' for the best short documentary, a heartbreaking news for animal lovers came from Odisha on Wednesday. Second elephant death report in two days The carcass of an elephant in Ganjam found two days after the death of a tusker in Muzagarh forest range. The female elephant was …

Elephant tramples farmer to death in Manyam district
2 years, 1 month ago

Elephant tramples farmer to death in Manyam district

Deccan Chronicle  

VISHAKHAPATNAM: A male elephant that got separated from the herd trampled a farmer to death at about 11 pm on Friday at Kallikota village in Komarada mandal in Parvatipuram Manyam district. It was a chance encounter,’’ divisional forest officer, Manyam district Rasuna said. Sub-inspector of police, Komarada, M.J. Naidu said that Govind had gone to his farm field to estimate …

13 people including minor kill elephant calf with poison, arrested after carcass exhumed
2 years, 2 months ago

13 people including minor kill elephant calf with poison, arrested after carcass exhumed

Firstpost  

A herd of 44 elephants to which the calf belonged went on a rampage and killed a man and three cattle. Forest personnel found that paddy had been planted freshly on the patch of land where the carcass was buried to cover up the killing Korba: Forest authorities have arrested 12 people and detained a minor boy for allegedly killing …

Reuniting a lost elephant calf with its clan: the why and how
2 years, 3 months ago

Reuniting a lost elephant calf with its clan: the why and how

The Hindu  

After a three-day-long search, the forest department officials in the Nilgiris have managed to track down the mother of an elephant calf that got separated from its herd last week. One would also need to get that smell off, or at least mask it with elephant dung or something, so that the elephants are not rejecting the calf. “I would …

Pregnant Sumatran elephant killed in suspected poisoning in Indonesia
2 years, 6 months ago

Pregnant Sumatran elephant killed in suspected poisoning in Indonesia

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. Read our privacy policy A heavily pregnant Sumatran elephant …

Man-Animal Conflict: Elephants Trample Farmer To Death In Andhra
2 years, 6 months ago

Man-Animal Conflict: Elephants Trample Farmer To Death In Andhra

ABP News  

Hyderabad: A herd of wild elephants trampled a farmer to death in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district on Wednesday, the latest casualty in the growing man-animal conflict near the forest bordering Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.Subrahmanyam was killed when the tuskers attacked him in his field at Indira Nagar area in Palamaner mandal early morning.The farmer died on the spot. The incident …

Skeletal remains of elephant found inside locked noon meal centre in Valparai
2 years, 10 months ago

Skeletal remains of elephant found inside locked noon meal centre in Valparai

The Hindu  

The Forest Department has commenced an investigation, following the discovery of the skeletal remains of an elephant inside a noon meal centre adjoining a government-aided school in Valparai, that had been remained locked due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Sources in the Revenue Department said that the noon meal centre was next to the Government Aided Elementary School in the High …

Baby elephant dies in Indonesia after trunk snared in poacher trap
3 years, 1 month ago

Baby elephant dies in Indonesia after trunk snared in poacher trap

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. Read our privacy policy A critically endangered Sumatran baby …

Elephants damage ration shop, houses near Valparai
3 years, 3 months ago

Elephants damage ration shop, houses near Valparai

The Hindu  

Three wild elephants which have been roaming near Valparai damaged a ration shop and two houses on Sunday night. Forest officials said the elephants have been straying into human habitations at Ettiyar, which falls under Manombolly forest range of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, for the last several weeks. The same elephants also damaged the doors of two houses, possibly in …

Tamil Nadu: Wild Elephant Mysteriously Dies After Killing 11 People In Theni
3 years, 4 months ago

Tamil Nadu: Wild Elephant Mysteriously Dies After Killing 11 People In Theni

ABP News  

Bodi: A wild elephant found dead in Thevaram area of Theni today in a mysterious state. Troublemaker For the past two years, a single wild elephant has been roaming the foothills of Thevaram near Bodi in the Theni district. The residents complained that the wild elephant would come and damage the crops, fields, huts, and houses adjacent to the forest …

Odisha: Another elephant found dead in Karlapat sanctuary, 6 jumbos die in 14 days
3 years, 10 months ago

Odisha: Another elephant found dead in Karlapat sanctuary, 6 jumbos die in 14 days

India Today  

A female elephant was found dead near a waterbody at Karlapat Wildlife sanctuary in Odisha's Kalahandi district, a Forest official said on Monday. Coordinator from Centre for Wildlife Health, OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Niranjan Sahu after visiting Karlapat sanctuary said: "The death of elephants is believed to be by HS. Pramod Kumar Singhdeo, a local from Karlapat belonging to the erstwhile Zamindar …

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