A herd of five wild elephants trampled a disabled man to death and brought down six houses in Surguja district of Chhattisgarh, a forest department official said Tuesday.
Kenda, 65, was caught in the chaos as the pachyderms attacked his neighbourhood in Arda village of the district, around 450 km from state capital Raipur, and pulled [...]
Guwahati, Jan 2 (IANS) A speeding freight train mowed down four wild Asiatic elephants, including two calves, amid dense fog in Assam Saturday, the authorities said.
A railway spokesperson said the incident occurred near Walingdisa railway station in Karbi Anglong district, about 270 km east of Assam’s main city Guwahati. The train was carrying petroleum products. [...]
Guwahati, Jan 2 (IANS) Four wild Asiatic elephants, including two calves, were mowed down by a speeding goods train Saturday in Assam, officials said.
A railway spokesperson said the incident occurred near Walingdisa railway station in Karbi Anglong district, about 270 km east of Assam’s main city Guwahati. The train was transporting petroleum products.
‘The train hit [...]
Hatighar Pathar (Assam), Dec 19 (ANI): A herd of about 80 wild elephants have been camping at Hatighar Pathar areas of Assam for the past two months, posing a threat to human life, properties and crops of residents.
Villagers said that on Friday two wild [...]
Raipur, Dec 7 (IANS) About a dozen cops on duty at a police station in Chhattisgarh ran for cover when they found a herd of wild jumbos roaming in the complex, authorities said Monday.
‘We are always prepared for any Maoist attack but we never thought of facing jumbos. We ran for cover when eight wild [...]
Raipur, Nov 27 (IANS) One woman was killed and six injured when marauding elephants went on the rampage and brought down eight houses in a Chhattisgarh village.
The incident took place Thursday night in Kusu village in Surguja district, about 450 km from here.
Forest official Mahendra Singh told IANS over the phone that 20 families [...]
Guwahati, Nov 25 (IANS) Angry over frequent depredation by wild elephants, an influential students’ group Wednesday threatened an indefinite shutdown of tea plantations in Assam.
The immediate provocation for the Assam Tea Tribes Students’ Association (ATTSA) to threaten to cease work was the killing of five plantation workers in separate incidents by rampaging elephant herds in [...]
Doars (WB), Nov 20 (ANI): A herd of around 25 wild elephants has entered a tea garden in the Doars region of West Bengal.
The herd of the jumbos has plundered the whole garden, workers reported.
forest officials were called in to drive the animals back to the forest, but in vain.
“Officials [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 19 (IANS) The release of zoo elephants into wildlife parks should be closely monitored as they could end up creating difficulties for their peers in the wild, say experts in Kerala, which has a large number of pachyderms.
The Central Zoo Authority had last week sent an order to chief wildlife wardens in the [...]
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Monday announced an award for the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) for its ban on keeping elephants in zoos and circuses.
‘By banning the use of elephants in zoos and circuses, the Central Zoo Authority has established itself as a world leader in [...]
Raipur, Nov 15 (IANS) Around 40 families of a forested tribal village in Chhattisgarh migrated to safer areas Sunday after wild elephants went on rampage for two consecutive nights and brought down several mud-built houses, forest officials said.
A group of wild tuskers had Friday night sneaked into Bakalo village in Surguja district, 420 km from [...]
Jalpaiguri, Oct 20 (ANI): In yet another incident of elephant menace, a herd of nearly 50 wild elephants strayed from the forest into human settlement and plundered paddy fields near Damding Tea Estate in Dooars region of West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district on Monday.
According to the farmers, the elephants came from the Baikunthpur forest range, [...]
Thekkady (Kerala), Sep.30 (AN): The death toll in the boat tragedy in Kerala’s Thekkady District rose to 22 on Wednesday evening. Earlier, the toll was pegged at six persons.
So far, ten persons have been rescued from the Periyar River where [...]
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) A narrow patch of forest, critical for movement of tigers and elephants in Nainital district of Uttarakhand, has been blocked due to an infrastructure project resulting in a serious man-animal conflict, conservation organisations said here Friday.
The narrow patch of forest across the Gola river near Lalkuan area is the only [...]
Raipur, Sep 16 (IANS) About a hundred families in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district have not slept since Sunday after a group of wild elephants sneaked into villages from a nearby forest, officials said Wednesday.
Some 20 families have migrated temporarily to safer areas after five villagers were injured Tuesday while chasing away the jumbos from Sargawa and [...]
Jalpaiguri, Aug 28 (ANI): A herd of wild elephants wreaked havoc in a village in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal.
Around 50 elephants had strayed into the Diana forest region of the district from Assam and caused damage to the crops and the houses in the Angrabasha GP-1 and [...]
Siliguri, (West Bengal), Dec 13 (ANI): A herd of 20 wild elephants damaged a tea garden in the Dooars region here on Saturday.
The jumbos were first sighted by tealeaf pluckers on Saturday morning.
“The elephants came in from the nearby forest. They were roaming around in the tea garden and also uprooted plants. They were [...]
