Tusker attack claims one more life in Kerala, this time it’s a 22-year-old youth
A 22-year-old youth was killed on Sunday in an attack by a wild elephant at Mullaringadu in Vannappuram Grama Panchayat, near Kothamangalam forest range in Kerala .
A 22-year-old youth was killed on Sunday in an attack by a wild elephant at Mullaringadu in Vannappuram Grama Panchayat, near Kothamangalam forest range in Kerala .
Around 50 wild elephants have so far been electrocuted by unauthorised electric fences or wires in Sri Lanka this year, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) said on Monday.
A wild elephant trampled a 40-year-old man to death at Knachary in Kuttampuzha near Kothamangalam in Kerala’s Ernakulam district on Monday night.
The elephant depredation occurred on Saturday night in Munda Sahi village as a herd of elephants pulled down a mud-walled house and later tossed a 12-year-old boy and a three-year-old baby girl in the air. Later they trampled them to death, said officials.
With as many as 857 elephants perishing in the last decade, Odisha has virtually turned into a graveyard for elephants, although national heritage animal status has been accorded to tuskers.
Yet another resident was knocked down by the elephants at a village in Barjora in the last midnight hours.
In the heart of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, a tragedy is unfolding as dozens of elephants succumb to the relentless assault of climate change impacts.
A six-month-old elephant calf, Kanmani, returned to a new life under the care of a veterinarian and Forest Guards after being found abandoned in the Attapadi forest in October with injuries all over the body.
The second migrating herd of the Dalma range of elephants that entered Bankura last week, destroyed several acres of almost ready-toharvest paddy on Beliatore last night
Heartbreaking news of a pregnant elephant's demise in Nilgiris due to a male elephant's mating attempt. Tragic incidents underscore the need for wildlife conservation.
