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Kerala High Court calls for captive elephants' ownership census in state

The Kerala High Court has ordered the state government to form a team to conduct a detailed survey and census of all captive elephants in the state. “We direct the state to constitute a team of District Collectors, Divisional Forest Officers from each district, to undertake a survey of the captive elephants held by private individuals/institutions and submit a report …

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3 days, 15 hours ago

John Abraham urges Nepal government to cancel Chitwan Festival, Elephant games

India Today

Actor and film producer John Abraham has sent an urgent letter to Badri Prasad Pandey, the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation of Nepal, urging him to end the abuse of animals at the Chitwan Elephant Festival, where elephants are beaten into submission and forced to race, give rides, and “play” polo and football. He further added, “These intelligent, …

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Kerala High Court Directs State To Constitute Teams For Carrying Out Census Of Captive Elephants, Identifying Their Custodians

Live Law

The Kerala High Court today directed the State Government to constitute a team for conducting a census of captive Elephants in the State. Court ordered thus: “We feel it imperative to direct the State to constitute a team comprising of the District collector and the Divisional Forest Officer of each district to conduct census of Elephants held by private individuals/institutions …

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'How Can You Ask Elephants To Keep 3 Meter Distance? Kerala High Court's Directions Impractical': Supreme Court

Live Law

The Supreme Court today while effectively staying the restrictions imposed by the Kerala High Court dated November 13, including that a minimum distance of 3 meters should be there between elephants during processions in temple festivals, remarked that the High Court should not have exercised suo moto powers and issued directions in "vacuum". While directing strict compliance with the Kerala …

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Supreme Court Stays Kerala HC's Directions On Use Of Elephants For Temple Festivals Which Are Contrary To 2012 Rules

Live Law

The Supreme Court on Thursday effectively stayed the restrictions imposed by the Kerala High Court for the use of elephants in temple festivals. The Court ordered that any direction issued by the High Court contrary to the Kerala Captive Elephants Rules, 2012 would remain stayed. The High Court issued various directions mandating a minimum 3-meter distance between two elephants, minimum …

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4 days, 15 hours ago

Supreme Court halts Kerala HC's 'impractical' rules on elephant in temple fests

India Today

At the famous Thrissur Pooram, it’s a centuries-old tradition that a large number of decorated elephants are paraded for all to see. And on Thursday, Supreme Court kept the tradition in mind to temporarily halt the restrictions imposed by the Kerala High Court on the use of elephants in temple festivals. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and N …

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5 days, 6 hours ago

Animal welfare group says bacterial infection killed Sonia the elephant in Pakistan

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani veterinary surgeons found that a bacterial infection killed an elephant at a safari park in the city of Karachi earlier this month, a veterinarian with a global animal welfare organization said Wednesday. Dr. Amir Khalil with the Vienna-based Four Paws told The Associated Press that the infection spread through 19-year-old Sonia’s body from her foot, raising concerns …

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1 week ago

Elephant politely signals man to move aside in viral video: 'Humans have much to learn'

Hindustan Times

Nature has a unique way of leaving us in awe, and a recently viral video has done just that. Elephant calmly signalled man to move, gently asking him to step aside in viral video. Posted with the caption, “Elephant gently reminding the human that he is in the way,” the clip has drawn praise for showcasing the elephant’s considerate and …

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350 elephants mysteriously died in 2020. We finally know what happened

India Today

The mysterious deaths of 350 African elephants in Botswana's Okavango Panhandle in 2020 have been finally solved. The deaths have been linked to toxic cyanobacteria blooms in nearby waterholes, according to a recent study published in Science of The Total Environment. The study shows the growing threat of cyanobacteria blooms, which are becoming more frequent due to climate change and …

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Works of elephant rehabilitation centre near Coimbatore in final stages

The Hindu

The work on a rehabilitation centre for captive elephants that is coming up in the forest at Chadivayal in Coimbatore district are in the final stage, according to the Forest Department. According to the Forest Department, the centre is coming up in about 20 hectares, with two streams running on both sides of the site, in the Boluvampatti forest range. …

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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 …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Perth Zoo's female elephant Permai set to depart in late January, months ahead of schedule

ABC

One of Perth Zoo's beloved elephants is leaving much sooner than originally planned after showing signs of loneliness. Female elephant Permai will be relocated to South Australia's Monarto Safari Park next month, about six months ahead of schedule, and before male elephant Putra Mas, who will wait until he's completed his annual hormonal surge. "We've always known that Permai is …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Karnataka plans to set up Elephant Soft Release Centre

Deccan Chronicle

Belagavi: In a move to tackle the menace of wild elephants in Kodagu and Hassan districts, the state government is making efforts to establish an Elephant Soft Release Centre over 2,000 hectares near these regions. The Minister said that daily patrols are being conducted in affected areas, and local residents are being informed about elephant movements through public announcements via …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Captive Elephant Sonu’s Eight-Year Ordeal: Legal Battles and Calls for Freedom in Chhattisgarh

The Hindu

Published : Dec 12, 2024 20:24 IST - 4 MINS READ For over eight years, an elephant named Sonu has been held captive in Chhattisgarh as part of the Forest Department’s strategy to manage the growing human-elephant conflict in the State. The committee included experts from the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun; the Elephant Study Centre, College of Veterinary and …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Kerala High Court Issues Contempt Notice To Devaswom Officer Over Violation Of Guidelines Regulating Elephant Parading At Temple Festivals

Live Law

The Kerala High Court has issued notice to an officer of the Cochin Devaswom Board under the Contempt of Courts Act, for allegedly breaching its guidelines regulating the parading of Elephants during Temple festivals. Jayasankaran Nambiar and Justice Gopinath P. observed that admittedly, violations occurred on December 02 while parading Elephants at the Thripunithura Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple festival from November …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Chhattisgarh Mining Crisis Forces Elephants Into Deadly Human Conflicts

The Hindu

Published : Dec 10, 2024 23:11 IST - 10 MINS READ The Last Migration, an award-winning short film by Mike Pandey, famously depicted the journey of elephants from Bihar to Sarguja district in Chhattisgarh, braving forest fires and human interference along the way. Nitin Singhvi, a wildlife activist who filed a petition in the Chhattisgarh High Court in 2018 against …

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1 week, 6 days ago

AI camera prevents elephants from colliding with train in Odisha. Video

India Today

An elephant family was saved from a catastrophic collision with an oncoming train due to an Artificial Intelligence -powered camera system in Odisha’s Rourkela. Detailing the incident in a post on X, retired Indian Forest Service Officer Susanta Nanda shared a video that showed the elephants walking towards the railway tracks. The forest department’s advanced AI cameras, installed along the …

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2 weeks ago

Did toxic algae kill hundreds of elephants in Botswana?

Al Jazeera

More than 350 elephants in Botswana died from toxic waterholes contaminated with cyanobacteria in 2020. An investigation into the sudden deaths of at least 350 elephants in Botswana in 2020 has revealed the cause was almost certainly a “toxic brew” of open water tainted by a species of cyanobacteria that released cyanotoxins, essentially contaminating the elephants’ watering holes. “Scientists believe …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

An elephant dies of apparent heart failure in Pakistan weeks after family reunion

Associated Press

KARACHI, Pakistan — An elephant died Sunday of apparent heart failure at a Pakistani safari park, an official said, less than two weeks after being reunited with her sister. Sonia, who was almost 19, is the second elephant to die in two years in the southern city of Karachi, where she had lived since 2009. She was reunited recently with …

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PHOTOS: Take a ride with the Elephant Response Team. And be careful!

NPR

PHOTOS: Take a ride with the Elephant Response Team. toggle caption Tommy Trenchard for NPR "Every night, families are losing their fruit trees, their gardens, their fences," said Brighton Manongo, a farmer and community leader in Dambwa South, who once lost 1,000 heads of cabbage to elephants in a single incident. toggle caption Tommy Trenchard for NPR Burning chili bricks …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

An elephant’s memoir of the Nizam’s rule

New Indian Express

HYDERABAD: I love museums for how they let you peek into the past — like a time machine but with air-conditioning. He was just the Nizam’s finance minister — basically, Nirmala Sitharaman with a shopping problem. Royalty gets palaces, and peasants get potatoes — if they’re lucky. The argument of whether Nizam’s rule was a boon or bane depends entirely …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Temple authorities cannot do as they please in name of religion: Kerala HC

New Indian Express

KOCHI: Coming down heavily on the devaswom officer of Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple, Tripunithura, for violating court directives on the elephant parade, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday orally observed that the temple authorities can’t do anything they like in the name of religion. “Only one breach is enough to cancel the festival permission granted but we are not doing it …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

HC raps CDB official for flouting elephant parade norms on fourth day of temple festival

The Hindu

A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Cochin Devaswom Board officer for violating court directive, including a distance norm to be observed between the jumbos during the elephant parade, on the fourth day of the festival at the Thripunithura Poornathrayeesa Temple. The Bench also directed Raghu Raman, Devaswom officer, to file an …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Kerala HC Pulls Cochin Devaswom Official For Violating Guidelines Regulating Parading Of Elephants At Temple Festivals, Seeks Affidavit

Live Law

The Kerala High Court has directed an official of the Cochin Devaswom Board to file an affidavit before the Court regarding alleged breach of guidelines issued regulating the parading of Elephants during Temple festivals. Last week, the Court had dismissed an application moved by the Devaswom Board for modification of the 3-meter distance rule between Elephants paraded at the Thripunithura …

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Kerala High Court calls for captive elephants' ownership census in state

John Abraham urges Nepal government to cancel Chitwan Festival, Elephant games

Kerala High Court Directs State To Constitute Teams For Carrying Out Census Of Captive Elephants, Identifying Their Custodians

'How Can You Ask Elephants To Keep 3 Meter Distance? Kerala High Court's Directions Impractical': Supreme Court

Supreme Court Stays Kerala HC's Directions On Use Of Elephants For Temple Festivals Which Are Contrary To 2012 Rules

Supreme Court halts Kerala HC's 'impractical' rules on elephant in temple fests

Animal welfare group says bacterial infection killed Sonia the elephant in Pakistan

Elephant politely signals man to move aside in viral video: 'Humans have much to learn'

350 elephants mysteriously died in 2020. We finally know what happened

Works of elephant rehabilitation centre near Coimbatore in final stages

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

Perth Zoo's female elephant Permai set to depart in late January, months ahead of schedule

Karnataka plans to set up Elephant Soft Release Centre

Captive Elephant Sonu’s Eight-Year Ordeal: Legal Battles and Calls for Freedom in Chhattisgarh

Kerala High Court Issues Contempt Notice To Devaswom Officer Over Violation Of Guidelines Regulating Elephant Parading At Temple Festivals

Chhattisgarh Mining Crisis Forces Elephants Into Deadly Human Conflicts

AI camera prevents elephants from colliding with train in Odisha. Video

Did toxic algae kill hundreds of elephants in Botswana?

An elephant dies of apparent heart failure in Pakistan weeks after family reunion

PHOTOS: Take a ride with the Elephant Response Team. And be careful!

An elephant’s memoir of the Nizam’s rule

Temple authorities cannot do as they please in name of religion: Kerala HC

HC raps CDB official for flouting elephant parade norms on fourth day of temple festival

Kerala HC Pulls Cochin Devaswom Official For Violating Guidelines Regulating Parading Of Elephants At Temple Festivals, Seeks Affidavit