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Separated from herd, curious baby elephant found playing at Kerala school, later turns up in Karnataka

August 22, 2025 6:47 am

It was on August 18 that the three-month-old calf entered the Government Lower Primary School at Chekadi in Wayanad. The calf found its way to the school around noon from the adjacent forest.

Ministry criticises Wildlife Institute’s report on captive elephants for ‘copy-paste’, using African tusker instead of Asian on cover

July 08, 2025 8:04 pm

In a letter to the WII on April 25, the ministry’s Project Elephant Division expressed dissatisfaction with the report.

Project Elephant review: Census ph-I completed in N-E, over 3,000 km rly lines mapped to prevent collisions

June 27, 2025 8:27 am

Yadav also chaired a meeting of the standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife in Dehradun and the committee recommended the inclusion of sloth bear and gharial in the ministry’s species recovery programme, the ministry added. 

Govt printed, then shelved its report on elephant census: Count fell by 20% in 5 years

October 03, 2024 10:38 pm

Final report with Northeast numbers to be expected by June 2025: Environment ministry

Man-elephant conflict: Karnataka conservationists, forest officials apprehensive of task force

November 25, 2022 5:25 pm

A forest officer points to the Karnataka Land Grabbing Prohibition (Amendment) Bill 2022, ‘which seeks to avoid criminal proceedings against farmers who have encroached on government land in rural areas’.

DRI seizes six pieces of ivory from Siliguri, two held

July 19, 2018 3:53 pm

This is the third seizure of Elephant Tusks affected by DRI this year in North Bengal and Assam region.

Tons of ivory crushed in Times Square to protest against illegal elephant poaching

June 20, 2015 10:11 am

The Wildlife Conservation Society says the global ivory trade is responsible for the slaughter of as many as 35,000 elephants a year in Africa.

Expert panel appointed to inquire elephant poaching

June 05, 2010 11:57 am

The National Tiger Conservation Authority has set up a two-member expert team to inquire the biggest-ever poaching of elephants inside Similipal Tiger Reserve.

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