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  • From Dolphins to Horses: Top 10 Most Friendly Animals in the World

    From Dolphins to Horses: Top 10 Most Friendly Animals in the World

    Here are the nicest animals on the planet who love to bond with humans and other animals too!

  • Zimbabwe to kill elephants, distribute meat to citizens as numbers soar

    Zimbabwe to kill elephants, distribute meat to citizens as numbers soar

    The southern Africa country is home to the second-biggest elephant population in the world after Botswana.

  • Namibia to kill over 700 wild animals to feed its people amid severe drought, famine

    Namibia to kill over 700 wild animals to feed its people amid severe drought, famine

    The animals set to be killed include 83 elephants, 30 hippos, 60 buffaloes, 50 impalas, 100 blue wildebeest, 300 zebras, and 100 elands. Over 157 animals have already been culled in the African country, yielding about 63 tons of meat.

  • Kerala HC seeks Centre, state govt stand on PIL claiming captive elephants illegally captured

    Kerala HC seeks Centre, state govt stand on PIL claiming captive elephants illegally captured

    A bench of Chief Justice A J Desai and Justice V G Arun issued notice to the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and the Kerala government, seeking their response to the PIL by animal rights activist Angels Nair.

  • Elephants eat like kings at Ambanis’ Jamnagar rescue centre. A look at the menu

    Elephants eat like kings at Ambanis’ Jamnagar rescue centre. A look at the menu

    Anant Ambani's Vantara looks after more than 200 rescued elephants. Life for these gentle giants in Jamnagar includes personalised diet charts, pool time, enrichment activities and more.

  • Elephants in India bury their calves, finds study by IFS officer

    Elephants in India bury their calves, finds study by IFS officer

    Asian elephants ritually bury their dead calves, a ground-breaking study by an Indian Forest Service officer and a Pune-based researcher has found.

  • Travel guide 2024: Exploring local life in Habarana, Sri Lanka

    Travel guide 2024: Exploring local life in Habarana, Sri Lanka

    If you are looking for an off the beaten track destination in Sri Lanka, choose Habarana, to experience a slice of local life.

  • Angry elephants crush car that struck a baby in their group

    Angry elephants crush car that struck a baby in their group

    A herd of angry elephants trampled a car that struck a baby elephant in their group in Malaysia. All three occupants of the car managed to escape without serious injuries.

  • Angry elephants charge towards 3 men taking selfies. Viral video

    Angry elephants charge towards 3 men taking selfies. Viral video

    A video of angry elephants charging towards three men trying to take selfies has gone viral online. The clip was shared on Twitter by IFS officer Susanta Nanda.

  • 2 killed by tuskers, 4 elephants electrocuted in Andhra Pradesh

    2 killed by tuskers, 4 elephants electrocuted in Andhra Pradesh

    Chittoor District Forest Officer (DFO) Chaitanya Kumar Reddy said that people were warned of elephant movements, especially of the two tuskers which strayed from Krishnagiri in Tamil Nadu.

  • 784 elephant deaths in 10 years in Odisha: Forest minister

    784 elephant deaths in 10 years in Odisha: Forest minister

    Accidents, disease, poisoning by poachers and electrocution were some of the reasons for the elephant deaths in the state, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Minister P K Amat said in the Odisha Assembly .

  • Solar fence along India-Bhutan border mitigates human-elephant conflict

    Solar fence along India-Bhutan border mitigates human-elephant conflict

    The barrier, erected on the Indian bank of River Bornadi, which marks the international border, has led to a dip in incidents of wild pachyderms straying into villages and a reduction in deaths due to man-elephant conflict.

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

    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

    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

  • What’s for lunch? Elephants are picky eaters finds study in northern West Bengal

    What’s for lunch? Elephants are picky eaters finds study in northern West Bengal

    A study in northern West Bengal found that elephants are selective with their diet, feeding on approximately 130 species of plants among the 286 that were recorded.

  • World Elephant Day (August 12): Inside a small Phuket reserve with a big mission

    World Elephant Day (August 12): Inside a small Phuket reserve with a big mission

    Only 45,000 Asian Elephants are left in the wild today; their population has nearly halved over three generations.

  • Watch: Elephants struggle to cross wall near train tracks, Railway Ministry solves problem

    Watch: Elephants struggle to cross wall near train tracks, Railway Ministry solves problem

    The puzzled herd of elephants stop momentarily at the wall before walking along the boundary possibly to find an entry into the forest.

  • Valentine's Day: These couples in Thailand got married on elephants

    Valentine's Day: These couples in Thailand got married on elephants

    Fifty-nine couples in Thailand got married while riding elephants on February 14, in an annual Valentine’s Day mass wedding ceremony at a botanical garden in a province east of Bangkok. The elephant-back wedding is an annual event at the Nong Nooch Tropical Garden in Chonburi province which usually attracts up to a hundred couples.

  • Another elephant electrocuted in Chhattisgarh, third death in 6 days

    Another elephant electrocuted in Chhattisgarh, third death in 6 days

    The latest fatality occurred on September 28 at a paddy field in Paragaon village under Dhawalpur forest range when a herd of 22 to 25 elephants was passing through the area

  • Coronavirus impact | Elephants queue up outside Kerala ration shops to get free food kits

    Coronavirus impact | Elephants queue up outside Kerala ration shops to get free food kits

    The Kerala government has earmarked Rs 16,000 per elephant for the next 40 days. The Animal Husbandry Department will be ensuring the food kits reach the respective caretakers of the elephants

  • Mumbai: The city of healthy dreams

    Mumbai: The city of healthy dreams

    India is set to emerge as the world‘s fastest growing economy by 2015 according to a World Bank report.

  • 5 Things that resonate Kerala

    5 Things that resonate Kerala

    Kerala, is now known as one of the best holiday destinations in India. Its eminence got me thinking about what are the things that actually made this place so famous and memorable.

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