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How Thailand’s elephant camps are transitioning to a cruelty-free future
2 months, 4 weeks ago

How Thailand’s elephant camps are transitioning to a cruelty-free future

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Tourists pay to visit commercialised elephant camps, which are designed as entertainment attractions,” explains Hatai Limprayoonyong, Wildlife Campaign Manager at …

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Forest Department shifts 26 captive elephants from Kozhikamuthi camp due to water scarcity, construction works
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Forest Department shifts 26 captive elephants from Kozhikamuthi camp due to water scarcity, construction works

The Hindu  

As part of a temporary arrangement for summer, authorities of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve have shifted 26 captive elephants from the Kozhikamuthi elephant camp near Top Slip in Coimbatore district to four other places within the reserve. Of the 26 elephants in the camp, one of the oldest in the country along with the Theppakadu camp in the Mudumalai Tiger …

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One-woman tusk force: A Wknd interview with Parbati Barua
10 months ago

One-woman tusk force: A Wknd interview with Parbati Barua

Hindustan Times  

When she first opened her eyes to the world, she saw an elephant. “There was more or less always one in sight.” There are other stories, like the one about how she learnt to sit astride a baby elephant before she could walk. “Afterwards, I would feel sad about taking a child away from its mother.” *** In 1977, the …

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Land chosen for houses of mahouts and cavadis of ATR’s Kozhikamuthy elephant camp
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Land chosen for houses of mahouts and cavadis of ATR’s Kozhikamuthy elephant camp

The Hindu  

The Forest Department has finalised the place for construction of houses for the mahouts and cavadis attached to the Kozhikamuthi elephant camp of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Coimbatore district. Mr. Stalin had announced that houses would be built at a cost of ₹9.10 crore for mahouts and cavadis who work at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and ATR, besides giving …

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Odisha government seeks urgent deployment of kumki elephants from Tamil Nadu
11 months ago

Odisha government seeks urgent deployment of kumki elephants from Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

The Odisha government has sought assistance of Tamil Nadu for making kumki elephants and mahouts available in the wake of worsening human-elephant conflict in the eastern State. Odisha’s Additional Chief Secretary Satyabrata Sahu wrote a letter to his Tamil Nadu counterpart Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief Secretary stating: “In recent years, we have been facing significant challenges in mitigating human-elephant conflicts. …

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Here Elephants Still Heed The Call Of The Wild
11 months ago

Here Elephants Still Heed The Call Of The Wild

Times of India  

As noon approached, Madhavan and his friend carried the cooked ragi in a white sack from the kitchen to the dining hall and dropped them on the table. This is a daily affair at Theppakadu elephant camp, an open elephant rehabilitation center, where elephants are allowed to roam freely the entire day in the forest and come back for food …

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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 …

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Tent school opened for continuing education of tribal children
1 year, 2 months ago

Tent school opened for continuing education of tribal children

The Hindu  

A makeshift school to enable children of mahouts to continue their learning and education, was inaugurated at the Mysuru palace grounds here on Friday. Launched a few years ago, this is an initiative to ensure that the education of the mahouts’ children does not suffer due to their prolonged stay in Mysuru for Dasara. The district in-charge Minister H.C. Mahadevappa …

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Kaziranga mahouts caught for consuming rare turtles
1 year, 6 months ago

Kaziranga mahouts caught for consuming rare turtles

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI Three persons engaged as mahouts in the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve have been arrested for capturing and consuming a rare species of a freshwater turtle inside the one-horned rhino habitat. Officials said there have been complaints about some employees under the Burapahar Range of the 118-year-old Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, consuming protected species. …

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Watch: IndiGo pilot welcomes onboard mahouts of 'The Elephant Whisperers', passengers applaud
1 year, 8 months ago

Watch: IndiGo pilot welcomes onboard mahouts of 'The Elephant Whisperers', passengers applaud

India TV News  

Trending News: A recent video that has gone viral on social media showcases a heartwarming gesture by the crew and passengers of an IndiGo flight. The video shows the moment when the passengers and crew give a warm welcome to Bomman and Billie, the stars of the Oscar-winning documentary 'The Elephant Whisperers'. Watch the viral video of IndiGo pilot welcoming …

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T.N. CM Stalin awards ₹1 lakh each to Bomman and Bellie, announces similar aid for all mahouts
1 year, 9 months ago

T.N. CM Stalin awards ₹1 lakh each to Bomman and Bellie, announces similar aid for all mahouts

The Hindu  

Bomman and Bellie, the two human protagonists showcased in Oscar-winning Indian documentaryThe Elephant Whisperers, met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin at the Secretariat in Chennai on Wednesday. The Chief Minister has also ordered the payment of ₹1 lakh each to all the 91 mahouts and cavadis at the Mudumalai and Anamalai elephant camps in Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu …

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The elephant whisperers of the Western Ghats
1 year, 9 months ago

The elephant whisperers of the Western Ghats

The Hindu  

The Elephant Whisperers, a heart-warming story of a couple Bomman and Bellie, and their unbreakable bond with Raghu, an orphaned elephant, has been nominated in the ‘Documentary Short Film Category’ in the 95th Academy Awards. Filmed in Tamil Nadu’s Theppakadu Elephant Camp at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Kartiki Gonsalves’ documentary shines light on the bond humans and animals can share, …

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Meet the mahouts at Theppakadu camp in Mudumalai who have transformed the lives of their elephants
2 years, 4 months ago

Meet the mahouts at Theppakadu camp in Mudumalai who have transformed the lives of their elephants

The Hindu  

Wasim’s trunk pauses midair as he reaches for a bamboo shoot. “They assist us in mitigating man-animal conflict,” says R Chandana Raju, the Forester is in-charge of the camp, which was established in 1917 by the British. “We use them to drive away wild elephants that stray into human habitation, capture problematic elephants during de-weeding drives in the forest and …

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Elephant caretakers mull over boycotting Mysuru Dasara festivities
2 years, 4 months ago

Elephant caretakers mull over boycotting Mysuru Dasara festivities

Deccan Chronicle  

MYSURU: The Karnataka State Government has decided to hold this year’s Mysuru Dasara festivities on a grand note, however, trouble brews as Mahouts and Kavadis are holding a meeting in Dubare Elephant Camp of Madikeri on Tuesday to decide on boycotting this year’s Dasara festivities if their demands regarding salary disparity are not met by the State Government. A meeting …

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In Frames | At the elephant camp
2 years, 5 months ago

In Frames | At the elephant camp

The Hindu  

Kozhikamuthi, a Malasar tribal settlement in the core area of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu, is known for the occupation its men have been taking up for generations — capturing, taming and handling wild elephants for the Forest Department. Text by Wilson Thomas and images by M. Periasamy The elephantmen: Mahouts and assistants in the Kozhikamuthi elephant camp …

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In Frames | At the elephant camp
2 years, 5 months ago

In Frames | At the elephant camp

The Hindu  

Kozhikamuthi, a Malasar tribal settlement in the core area of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu, is known for the occupation its men have been taking up for generations — capturing, taming and handling wild elephants for the Forest Department. Text by Wilson Thomas and images by M. Periasamy The elephantmen: Mahouts and assistants in the Kozhikamuthi elephant camp …

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The elephant tamers of Anamalai Hills
2 years, 6 months ago

The elephant tamers of Anamalai Hills

The Hindu  

June 10, 2022 04:36 am | Updated 03:59 pm IST One of the first scents every child born in Kozhikamuthi, a Malasar tribal settlement, near Top Slip, located in a core area of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, may experience is the smell of an elephant. My brother was a mahout at the camp, and I grew up observing how he …

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Elephants at Mudumalai camp tested for Covid-19
3 years, 6 months ago

Elephants at Mudumalai camp tested for Covid-19

India TV News  

Swabs of 28 captive elephants at a camp in the district on Tuesday have been taken for testing, days after a lioness succumbed to COVID-19 and nine others in the pride tested positive for the infection at a Zoo in Chennai. Forest minister K Ramachandran ordered samples to be collected from all the elephants and send them to the Indian …

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Dasara elephants make grand entry into palace
4 years, 2 months ago

Dasara elephants make grand entry into palace

The Hindu  

The five Dasara elephants led by 54-year-old Abhimanyu, who will be carrying the 750 kg golden howdah for the first time this year, were accorded a traditional welcome into the Mysuru palace on Friday. The caparisoned elephants that arrived from their respective forest camps on Thursday and stayed overnight at Aranya Bhavan majestically marched into the palace to begin their …

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