Twenty-four people, from Forest Department staff and local fishers to the Teesta Barrage gateman, received Gaja Mitra Awards in Siliguri on 7 October for helping rescue an elephant calf swept away by the Teesta River.
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Aaranyak has published the account of a Class 9 student from Sivasagar district who took part in its elephant outreach between 2022 and 2025, a programme running in three villages around Panidehing.
Almost every temple elephant carries a spray of pale freckles on its trunk and ears. The patches are natural depigmentation, seen in wild herds too, and the myths we attach to elephants say a great deal about how we treat them.
Twenty-seven mahouts and ghasis from Manas National Park have finished a week of training in elephant biology, health and handling, and the reserve’s field director used the opening to call again for a dedicated mahout school in Assam.
India’s Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change told delegates from more than 100 countries in Jaipur that India’s Ramsar-listed wetlands have grown from 24 to 101 in a decade.
A wild bull elephant found with a suspected spear wound and a clouded left eye near a tea estate in Assam’s Sonitpur district a month ago is still under treatment, with vets tracking whether his eyesight will come back.
An elephant named Bharat spent two days refusing to leave the spot in Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh, where his companion died of electrocution, forcing the state’s Forest Department to bring in four tuskers from two tiger reserves before he could be safely captured.
A herd of nine elephants, including two calves, wandered out of Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary and into the paddy fields around Khanapur taluk this week, in what officials say is the first elephant movement ever recorded in the Belagavi Forest Division.
Madhuri, a female elephant known in Kolhapur as Mahadevi, is returning home after 13 months at Vantara in Jamnagar, Gujarat, under a court-backed order that keeps Vantara’s vets checking on her every fortnight.
Sixteen elephants at Kanha Tiger Reserve clocked out of patrol duty this week for a six-day break.