2009-01-12 - Panaji, India.
Posting of two elephants from Bondla zoo to help forest department staff patrolling Goa's border areas around Chandel and Hassapur has helped keep two pachyderms, which had destroyed crops in Mopa and Anconem, at bay for some time. "The tame elephants help better visibility as staff mounted on it can see far and wild ones are a little afraid of them," Shashi Kumar, Chief Conservator of Forest told TOI on Saturday. The elephants which had been straying into Goa at random have not been seen for a ...
2006-07-26 - Panaji, India.
Chief Minister Pratapsing Rane said Goa would seek the assistance of Maharashtra government to drive away the three elephants that are causing havoc in Pernem. He said every time the elephants are driven away, they return causing much damage to plantations in Bicholim and Pernem talukas. “We drove them out at a heavy cost and we also had to pay compensation to the affected persons”, Rane said.
2006-07-09 - Panaji, India.
As Regards to the wild tuskers coming back in Pernem, the deputy conservator of forests, North Goa, Mr S T d’A Henriques said that in case the tuskers reappear the people should keep calm, maintain safe distance and immediately intimate their presence to the forest officials. In a statement he said the wild tuskers having migrated from Karnataka into Maharashtra and then strayed into Goa last year, caused damage to crops including loss of a human life.
2006-01-25 - Panaji, India.
A joint meeting of senior wildlife officials and experts from Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa was held here to deliberate on ways to tackle the elephants' menace. The meeting, chaired by Goa Chief Secretary J K Dadoo, resolved to undertake a study on the habitat, migration and extent of damage caused by elephants in the three states, and evolve a joint action plan to tackle the same.
2005-09-13 - Panaji, India.
The deputy conservator of forests (north), Mr R K Singh is keeping a watch over the north Goan villages and the forest area, even though three elephants disturbing the region for over past three months have already crossed the Goan border and are currently in the state of Maharashtra. Mr Singh told The Navhind Times that the chief conservator of forests, Mr A K Wahal had already instructed him to maintain a surveillance over North Goa, in this regard.
2005-08-08 - Panaji, India.
Trained elephants from Shimoga in Karnataka have arrived in Goa to help the state’s forest department to drive away wild elephants. The government of Goa has requisitioned the services of these five trained tuskers to drive away three wild elephants -- two females and one male calf—which have terrorised the villages coming under the sub-districts of Bardez and Bicholim taluka in the state.
2005-08-07 - Panaji, India.
Nearly a fortnight after the three wild elephants struck terror among the people in villages of Bardez and Bicholim taluka, the government has finally brought five trained tuskers called ‘Kunki’, along with ten ‘mahouts’ from Shimoga district of Karnataka to drive them away so that they can reach to their habitation in Maharashtra.
2005-08-02 - Panaji, India.
A team of Forest Department led by the assistant conservator of forest (ACF), Mr Pradeep Kundaikar from Ponda, today left for Shimoga in Karnataka to complete the formalities for getting five trained elephants ‘Kunki’ to deal with the wild tuskers in few villages of Bardez and Bicholim taluka.
2005-07-22 - Panaji, India.
The Chief Minister, Mr Pratapsing Rane today said that the Karnataka government has agreed to send five trained elephants to tame three wild elephants which had caused extensive damage to the plantations in Sal, Mencurem, Adval Pal, Latambarcem, Pirna and Nadora villages of Bicholim and Bardez talukas.
2005-07-13 - Panaji, India.
The deputy conservator of forests, Mr C D Singh today forwarded a proposal to the chief wildlife warden, Goa, requesting for hiring the services of Kunki elephants and organising joint operations with the forest departments of Goa and Maharashtra as well as the locals from both sides of the border, to guide the elephants which are currently disturbing the North Goa village of Nadora, back to their natural habitat.
2004-11-18 - Panaji, India. New kerala.com
Herds of wild elephants, straying into areas bordering Goa lured by the sugarcane crops and water reserves, are causing havoc to villages and residents have urged that the pachyderms be relocated to sanctuaries. Villagers living along the Maharashtra-Goa border areas have started using torches and sticks to frighten the elephants that trample crops, the only source of livelihood for most people.
2024-07-10 - Dublin, Ireland.
Dublin Zoo has confirmed that a third elephant has tested positive for a virus which has left two other elephants dead over the last ten days. Eight-year-old Avani and seven-year-old Zinda died from E...
2024-06-18 - Houston, United States. Houston Zoo
Tess, a 40-year-old Asian elephant at Houston Zoo, has been given the first-ever dose of an mRNA vaccine created by virologists at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) to prevent the deadly elephant endot...
2024-04-26 - Blackpool, United Kingdom.
The latest round of pregnancy tests at Blackpool Zoo has revealed that two of its elephants are expecting babies. Mother and daughter Noorjahan and Esha are both pregnant and due to give birth in late...
2024-04-02 - Sen Monorom, Cambodia.
There was sad news from Mondulkiri Province, with the death of 2 year old elephant “Chi Pich” being announced. Sources from the Elephant Livelihood Initiative Environment Organization (ELIE) said ...
2024-03-26 - Kochi, India.
Popular tusker Mangalamkunnu Ayyappan, 55, 55, died at Mangalamkunnu in Palakkad on Monday. The elephant owned by M A Haridasan had been under treatment for the past few months.
2024-03-23 - Kegalle, Sri Lanka.
The 76th elephant calf was born at the Rambukkana Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage on March 20.This baby elephant was born to 32-year-old she-elephant Shanthi and 19-year-old Pandu at the Pinnawala Elepha...
2024-03-23 - Pretoria, South Africa.
In the ongoing efforts to curb poaching and snaring of animals within the Zimbabwe and Mozambique borders, South African National Parks (SANParks) is working to create more partnerships with neighbour...
2024-03-15 - , United States.
After weeks of voting and thousands of submissions, the Toledo Zoo has officially chosen the name of their precious baby elephant and we're personally thrilled about the news! Ladies and gentleman, Ki...
2024-03-09 - Tucson, United States.
A baby elephant was born at Reid Park Zoo. The zoo said Semba, the facility’s African elephant matriarch, gave birth to a 265-pound calf around 3:31 a.m. Friday, March 8. Reid Park Zoo said the calf...
2024-03-04 - Copenhagen, Denmark.
A female baby elephant in Copenhagen Zoo has been named Chin after the Tha Chin river in central Thailand. The elephant was born last week in the Danish zoo. The zookeepers, who take care of the young...
2024-02-29 - Alappuzha, India.
Evoor Kannan, the elephant known for his murderous rage and with a history of killing two mahouts is in a bad mood these days. He had been gentle under the care of his former Mahout Sharath Parippally...
2024-02-20 - Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands.
African elephant Punda has become the mother of a healthy elephant calf after a 22-month pregnancy. This is the third calf born in the Safari Park Beekse Bergen k in four months. Never before have thr...
2024-02-15 - Pittsburgh, United States.
The zoo said Tsuni died Thursday after a sudden, brief battle with elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV). Her EEHV was detected through routine blood testing on Feb. 8, even though she presente...
2024-02-15 - Seoul, South Korea.
The oldest female elephant in South Korea passed away Tuesday at a zoo in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, at the age of 59, zoo officials said Thursday. The female elephant, named Sakura, had suffered fr...
2024-01-30 - Bangalore, India.
The Bannerghatta Biological Park is brimming with excitement as it welcomes a delightful new addition—a baby boy elephant calf. This adorable arrival brings the elephant count in the Bannerghatta zo...
2024-01-27 - Guruvayur, India.
Elephant Kannan, of the Guruvayur Devaswom Elephant Camp, a nine-time winner of the festival-related elephant race, has passed away. His demise was around 5:30 pm on Saturday. The tusker's age at the ...
2024-01-27 - Koh Nhek, Cambodia.
Villagers found a baby elephant dead in Koh Nhek district, Mondulkiri province in the middle of the forest on January 26, 2024, suspected of being shot. Mondulkiri Provincial department of environm...
2024-01-13 - Beijing, China.
A recent study published in the journal eLife has uncovered new findings on the development of dextrous trunks by indigenous elephants. According to Dr. Shi-Qi Wang, a senior author of the research, t...
2024-01-13 - Pekanbaru, Indonesia.
The Tesso Nilo National Park in Pelalawan District, Riau Province, again lost one of its Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus) after a poacher allegedly killed it for its tusks. The 46-year...
2024-01-11 - New York, United States.
In a narrow but sprawling curatorial space at the uptown museum, The Secret World of Elephants, now opened, tells the story of elephant species and their relatives through life-size models, videos, gr...
