Elephants

An elephant in Mysuru, Karnataka. Credit: shahinolakara/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Listen: Walking With Elephants, With Manan Gupta

Shruti Muralidhar, Navneet A. Vasistha and Abhishek Chari 18/06/2018

Manan Gupta talks about how reading Richard Dawkins helped...

There is perhaps no large wild animal that dies unnaturally in such large numbers in single events as do elephants due to collisions with trains. Credit: walterjenny86/pixabay

What Are We Doing to Keep More Elephants From Being Killed by Trains?

Neha Sinha 17/04/2018

What we do now to mitigate the impact of...

Kruger has a healthy population of elephants but poaching and loss of habitat have been reducing their numbers. Credit: Justin Catanoso

The Solution to the Ongoing Loss of South Africa’s Endangered Animals Lies in Education

Justin Catanoso 14/07/2017

Those fighting the slaughter say that apart from saving...

Elephants prefer to stay within forested areas during the day and stray out only after dusk. Credit:seth0s/pixabay

Giving Elephants the Space They Need, One SMS at a Time

Atula Gupta 27/04/2017

Multiple states in India are taking to an SMS-based...

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Trapped Elephants Face Attacks by Mob in India

Shreya Dasgupta 07/03/2017

A video shows hundreds of men descending upon a...

FILE PHOTO - A male elephant grazes during an exercise to fit them with advanced satellite radio tracking collar to monitor their movement at the Amboseli National Park in Kenya

Elephants May Sleep Less Than Any Other Mammal

Will Dunham 03/03/2017

Scientists have found that the world's largest land mammal...

A Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management official checks ivory inside a storeroom in Harare August 22, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo

Zimbabwe Refuses to Destroy Ivory Stocks, Lobbies Neighbours on Trade

MacDonald Dzirutwe 02/06/2016

Cash-strapped Zimbabwe says trade is the only way to...