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.
Madhya Pradesh Forest Department
The Union government has approved the felling of 156,319 sal trees across two districts in Madhya Pradesh, a scale that measures just how deep a beetle infestation has cut into the state’s Amarkantak forests.