2020-09-28 - Bhopal, India. Manish Chandra Mishra
Elephants have migrated from Chhattisgarh to Madhya Pradesh primarily because of deforestation in their habitat. About 50 villages near Bandhavgarh National Park in M.P. are affected by an increased presence of elephants. Even as human-elephant conflict is increasing in the state, M.P. lacks the funds and knowhow required to manage the pachyderms.
2014-09-08 - Bhopal, India.
Madhya Pradesh forest department would soon be getting nine elephants from their Karnataka counterpart to expand its almost 50-strong pachyderm population used for monitoring tigers and patrolling in the various tiger reserves in the state, official said on Sunday.
2007-12-11 - Bhopal, India.
Re-emergence of wild elephants in Madhya Pradesh's forests is ironically both exhilarating as well as a cause for concern. Lately, pachyderms have been observed roaming in the jungles of Sidhi and Shahdol districts adjoining Chhattisgarh while isolated cases of elephant poaching were also reported, Forests Department officials informed.
2005-03-07 - Bhopal, India. India News
Forest personnel and mahouts will try and understand the sexual behaviour of elephants in an exercise that officials hope will help them tame the animals. K.C. Pannikar, an expert with the Elephant Institute in Kerala's Thrissur district, will conduct the training March 19 to 24. Around 100 mahouts and officials from the Satpura, Bandhavgarh and Kanha national parks of Madhya Pradesh will take part. "The workshop will teach the mahouts about elephant physiology and ...
2023-05-27 - Colombo, Sri Lanka.
A team of veterinarians and experts will be sent to Sri Lanka next month to prepare for the return of Sak Surin, an ailing and ageing Thai elephant, to Thailand for medical treatment and physical reha...
2023-05-21 - Karachi, Pakistan.
A month after the death of Noor Jehan, an elephant in Karachi Zoo whose illness revived criticisms of the zoos, a second elephant named Madhubala is sick with a potentially fatal infection. The 18-yea...
2023-05-20 - Omaha, United States.
Callee, a 22-year-old male who has been at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium since 2019, will be moved to the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, the Omaha zoo announced Thursday. Callee’s move was ...
2023-05-18 - , United States.
Callee, a 22-year-old male who has been at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium since 2019, will be moved to the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, the Omaha zoo announced on Thursday. Callee's move was...
2023-05-15 - Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
In the early evening of May 11, a small crowd gathered in front of the Zoológico Dr. Juan A. Rivero, hoping for one last peek of Mundi, the elephant symbol of the zoo shut down for animal abuse in M...
2023-05-09 - Dallas, United States.
The Dallas Zoo made the heartbreaking announcement Tuesday that one of its elephants has died. The 7-year-old African elephant, Ajabu, passed away Monday after a 12-day battle with a viral infection, ...
2023-05-05 - Hunsur, India.
Balarama, the 67-year-old former Captain of the Dasara Jumboo Savari elephant squad, who had carried the 750-kg Golden Howdah for a record 14 times has fallen sick due to suspected Tuberculosis (TB) a...
2023-05-03 - , United States. Michael D. Cherney, Daniel C. Fisher, Richard J. Auchus, Adam N. Rountrey, Perrin Selcer, Ethan A. Shirley, Scott G. Beld, Bernard Buigues, Dick Mol, Gennady G. Boeskorov, Sergey L. Vartanyan & Alexei N. Tikhonov
2023-04-22 - Pattaya, Thailand.
Nong Nooch Tropical Garden welcomed its second baby elephant of 2023. Park Director Kampol Tansajja presided over the April 20 blessing ceremony for the new calf, named “Plai Chai”, with Phra Khru...
2023-04-22 - , Pakistan.
Ailing elephant Noor Jehan, who went under the knife earlier this month, succumbed to the complications as she did not recover properly, with her condition worsening to an alarming extent in recent da...
2023-04-21 - Bannerghatta, India.
Performing a rare surgery, a team of veterinary surgeons saved a 48-year-old elephant at Bannerghatta Biological Park. which had suffered a stillbirt and was on the verge of dying. Suvarna has so far ...
2023-04-18 - Beekse Bergen, Netherlands.
Safari park Beekse Bergen is looking forward to welcoming three baby African elephants this year. Elephant bull Yambo impregnated Pina-Nessi, Punda, and Bongi, the safari park said. Punda is the matri...
2023-03-29 - Buon Don, Vietnam.
A 49-year-old elephant in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has died from illness and exhaustion. The information was given on March 27 by Tran Xuan Phuoc, director of the Dak Lak Centre for E...
2023-03-27 - Oakland, United States.
The Oakland Zoo euthanized its 46-year-old African elephant Lisa on March 26, 2023, due to years of health problems. The elephant was afflicted by eye ulcers, arthritis, foot and nail lesions, and mo...
2023-03-18 - Dallas, United States.
This little boy is almost three weeks old, and he has a NAME! Meet... Okubili! His name means "two" or "duplicate" in Zulu, and we think it's perfect for this little one because he is a carbon copy of...
2023-03-15 - Jinan, China.
An Asian elephant named Yaqi at Jinan Zoo in East China's Shandong Province died of multiple organ failure on Monday, the zoo announced, breaking heart of netizens. Yaqi would no longer embrace the sp...
2023-03-13 - Theppakadu, India.
Shot in the Theppakadu Elephant Camp inside the Mudumulai Tiger Reserve in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, The Elephant Whisperers follows Bomman and Bellie as they care for Raghu, an injured baby e...
2023-03-08 - Dallas, United States.
In a historic birth, the Dallas Zoo welcomed a baby elephant to the family late last month, the zoo announced Wednesday. At 290 pounds, the male calf was born Feb. 26 at 2:27 a.m. to one of the zoo’...
2023-02-27 - Sequim, United States.
Using 21st century technology to peer into mankind’s history dating back nearly 14,000 years, a team led by a Texas A&M professor has confirmed what researchers believe is the oldest weapon made of ...
2023-02-24 - Fort Worth, United States.
It’s official, baby Brazos has a brother from another mother as of 2 a.m. on February 23. This healthy 37-inch-tall, 270-pound male Asian elephant calf is the fifth calf born at the Fort Worth Zoo, ...
