Visual Stories Fifty-six elephants gather at Baghmara Forest on World Elephant Day for a spread of fruits, grains and sweets. Fifty-six elephants gathered at the Baghmara Forest office premises n...
Kathmandu. Today is World Elephant Day, and in Nepal too, this day is being celebrated with emphasis on wildlife elephant conservation, human-elephant conflict mitigation, and conservation of eleph...
Kimana, Aug. 8: The carcass of one elephant lies on a dusty road, while another has been almost completely eaten by scavengers, leaving just the skull. They are among 15 elephants that died of susp...
BHADRAPUR, Aug. 3: Human-elephant conflict in Jhapa has intensified over the years. In the past 16 years, 80 people have lost their lives in attacks by wild elephants.
Two elephant tusks that were displayed on the walls of Sheetal Niwas, the President’s Office, have been found to have been stolen. Police have arrested several individuals in connection with the in...
New barriers built along an irrigation canal have reduced elephant and other wildlife incursions into settlements, but communities remain exposed where electric fencing is poorly maintained. A con...
Chitwan. A new wild elephant has started being seen in the Sauraha area of Chitwan National Park. A wild elephant, estimated to be around 18-19 years old, has been seen for about two weeks. Accord...
Chitwan, Aug 7: Minister for Agriculture, Forest and Tourism, Gita Chaudhary, has said an 'elephant sanctuary' event was being organized for the promotion of human-wildlife coexistence.
JHAPA, July 6: Home Minister Sudan Gurung is on a visit to Jhapa to assess border security, review security challenges in the district and inspect areas affected by recurring human-elephant conflic...
Wildlife officials dart and fit satellite collar on wild bull elephant ‘Dhurbe’ after a 10-day search, hoping to prevent further deadly encounters with people. Wildlife authorities have located an...
Chitwan. Minister for Agriculture, Forest and Environment Gita Chaudhary has emphasized the need to develop the Elephant Breeding and Training Center in Sauraha as an excellent tourist destination ...
By Our Correspondent, Damak, July 31: An electric fence installed to protect crops from elephants has once again turned into a death trap in Mayalu Forest in Bhadrapur Municipality-4, Jhapa.
CHITWAN, July 5: A tragic incident occurred in Bharatpur Metropolitan City-23 Belhatta, where a mother and her four-year-old son were killed in an elephant attack while they were sleeping at home.
A week after the wild tusker killed a woman and her four-year-old son in Jagatpur, Chitwan National Park has intensified efforts to tranquillise, collar and track the animal blamed for 25 deaths si...
Kathmandu. Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) MP Nisha Dangi has drawn the government's attention to control elephants, stating that the general public is finding it difficult to survive due to the ele...
CHITWAN, June 22: Prime Minister Balendra Shah visited the elephant breeding and training centre at Khorsor, Sauraha today and made an observation of the facility.
The framing of ‘human-wildlife conflict’ naturalises the problem, obscures the political choices that produce it and shields powerful conservation actors from scrutiny. On July 5, an elephant smas...
Two elephants were found dead in a 'production forest' (a forest area managed for commercial purposes) in South Sumatra, located in the Bengkulu province of Indonesia. An adult elephant and its ca...
Woman killed in elephant attack in Jhapa
Herd repeatedly enters villages over two weeks, damaging homes, crops and food stocks worth Rs1.62 million as frightened residents demand relief and long-term protection. A herd of wild elephants ...
Deaths from leopard, tiger and elephant attacks have nearly doubled from last year, with officials linking the rise in leopard encounters to growing tiger populations in protected forests. Wildlif...
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