Indonesia uses trained elephants to control forest fires
SIAK, Indonesia (AP) -- Forest fires difficult to control? Call in the pachyderm patrol. Officials in Indonesia are using trained elephants outfitted with water pumps and hoses to help control fires...
View ArticleOdisha ‘chases back’ jumbo herd
MIDNAPORE: The herd of about 45 Dalma elephants that entered Odisha on Friday returned to West Midnapore's Nayagram early on Saturday with Bengal foresters crying foul that the pachyderms had been...
View ArticleMore villagers forced to flee as displaced elephants invade
Observers are urgently calling for a review of plantation activities that intrude on elephant habitats in Aceh after dozens of elephants again entered and occupied a residential area in the province,...
View ArticleOne dead, 15 injured as bus collides with tanker
BAREILLY: One person was killed and 15 others seriously injured after a private bus carrying pilgrims collided with a tanker near Fareedpur petrol pump on the highway near here on Sunday morning. The...
View ArticleJumbo attack kills councillor
MIDNAPORE: Kaustav Banerjee, a Congress councillor of Midnapore Municipality, was killed by a tusker in Amdiha forest in Jhargram's Manikpara area on Friday afternoon. Banerjee, the...
View ArticleFive held with tusk, rhino horn worth lakhs in Bengal
Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) Five people have been arrested in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district after elephant tusk and rhino horn worth over Rs.30 lakh were recovered from them, an official said on...
View ArticleStraying into forests
With the pressures of growing human and cattle population, forests have undergone degradation and fragmentation due to the illicit removal of wood and grazing by cattle, sheep and goats. The livestock...
View ArticleSix elephants electrocuted in three months
Elephants continued to die in Odisha by coming in contact with live wire with the Forest and Environment department reporting six electrocution deaths of jumbos within last three months. Odisha, which...
View ArticleElephants keep forest officials on their toes
Eleven tuskers, who have been gorging on a buffet of cultivated crop in Nelamangala, have kept forest officials on their toes for over a month. While the department is attempting to drive the elephants...
View Article‘Drunk’ elephant goes on rampage, knocks down school wall
Bijnor: Residents of Bijnor's Rehad village, which falls close to Amangarh Tiger Reserve, had a tough time dealing with a 'drunk' elephant who went on rampage for three hours. According to locals, the...
View ArticleFive killed in Bengal road accident
Kolkata, Nov 1 (IANS) Five people were killed and six others were injured on Sunday after the vehicle they were traveling in collided head-on with a truck in West Bengal's Bankura district, police...
View ArticleAnimals, humans in violent conflict in North Sumatra, Aceh
Potential conflicts between animals and human beings have continued to emerge in some regions on Sumatra, mostly because of severe disturbances to the animals’ original habitats. In Besitang district,...
View ArticleElephant menace continues unabated in Srikakulam
Elephant menace continued unabated in several mandals of the district. A herd of elephants trampled crops in five acres in Jimbada area of LN Peta mandal, causing uproar among the farmers on Friday....
View ArticleElephants kill man in South West Garo Hills
SHILLONG: A herd of over 100 wild elephants trampled down a school teacher in his paddy field at Katuli in Meghalaya's South West Garo Hills district on...
View ArticleElephant dies as conflict with humans intensifies
Violent conflict between humans and elephants has continued to spread in Aceh after dozens of elephants invaded a residential area in East Aceh regency and occupied the oil palm plantations of local...
View ArticleJumbo gives birth in plantain grove
COIMBATORE: Elephants entering the village is never good news for farmers who fear widespread damage to their crop and try to drive them away. But this Sunday morning was different as the sight of an...
View ArticleWild elephants raid crops in Kodaikanal
Farmers in upper Kodaikanal hill have been facing threat from wild animals, especially elephants camping in the area for a long time. A herd of wild elephants destroyed banana plantations at a farm...
View ArticleJumbos damage crop in Rayagada
Koraput: A herd of 15 elephants damaged houses and destroyed paddy on 25 acre at Karadabanda village under Muniguda forest range in Rayagada district late on Friday....
View ArticleTiger charges at villagers trying to click pictures, one injured
Bengaluru: A group of villagers who went close to a tiger to click pictures had to run for their lives when the angry cat chased them and critically injured a person. The incident occurred outside...
View ArticleThree suicides not linked to crop failure: Bengal
Kolkata, Oct 31 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Saturday said the deaths of three people reported in media as "farmer suicides" in the state had "no connection with crop failure but health and...
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