Elephant Habitats

The All-India Synchronous Elephant Estimation (SAIEE) 2025 has estimated the nation’s wild elephant population at 22,446, lower than 27,312 recorded in 2017.

World Elephant Day 2025: Majuli forest marks the day with a strong call for peaceful human-elephant coexistence

A herd of around 150 elephants has been moving across Majuli’s chars and chaporis for years. Unlike other regions, these areas have seen little human-elephant conflict.

Oscar winner The Elephant Whisperers’ Kartiki Gonsalves: ‘When people start to understand elephants is when they start to love them’

Kartiki Gonsalves, natural history photographer, cinematographer, director of the 2023 Oscar-winning Netflix documentary short 'The Elephant Whisperers' talks about Asian elephants and indigenous communities, the making of the film and the need to think beyond our own selves to help the planet.

Oscar winner The Elephant Whisperers' co-cinematographer Anand Bansal on how everyone's honesty made the film singular

Kartiki Gonsalves' Oscar-winning Netflix documentary short, 'The Elephant Whisperers', has been shot by four cinematographers, one of whom, Anand Bansal, speaks about wielding the camera and his various projects