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Wild elephants drinking from a stream near Bardiya National Park in Nepal. Image courtesy of Bardiya National Park.

In western Nepal, farmers switch to growing turmeric; elephants stay away

Deepak Adhikari 13 Aug 2025
Jayantha Jayewardene. Image from The history of Ceylon tea.

Jayantha Jayewardene, Sri Lanka’s elephant advocate, died July 30, aged 81

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2025

Sri Lanka tusker death sparks euthanasia debate & calls for conservation solutions

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jul 2025

Vatsala, Asia’s oldest known elephant, died on July 8th, 2025, aged around 100

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jul 2025

After USAID cut, Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area aims for self-sufficiency

Solomon Yimer 27 Jun 2025
Locals pass wild elephants on a farmland in northeastern Bangladesh.

Bangladesh plans new reserve for trapped elephants

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Jun 2025
A female elephant with her calf on agricultural land in northeastern Bangladesh.

Bangladesh plans new ‘protected area’ for elephants in its conflict-prone northeast

Abu Siddique 18 Jun 2025
A forest elephant, not from Senegal.

First elephant sighting in 6 years sparks hope for species’ return to a Senegal park

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025
White-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis), Gabon. Image by bureaubenjamin via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Pandemic-era slump in ivory and pangolin scale trafficking persists, report finds

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025
A herd of female and young Borneo elephants eat chipped palms in a plantation.

Uniting plantations to save Bornean elephants: Interview with Farina Othman

Lee Kwai Han 10 Jun 2025
Community rangers guard elephants in Sera Conservancy, Northern Rangelands, Kenya.

Wildlife crime crackdown in jeopardy worldwide after US funding cuts

Carolyn Cowan, Charles Mpaka, Gerald Flynn, Hans Nicholas Jong, Philip Jacobson, Spoorthy Raman 22 May 2025
A crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), incredulous that its habitat may be able to coexist with oil palm crops without affecting commercial productivity. Image by Alain Rival/TRAILS.

Borneo project hopes to prove that forests and oil palms can coexist

Louise Hunt 15 May 2025
Lion inside Queen Elizabeth National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Beyond the Safari

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2025
Elephants move across the African savannah. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

The wisdom of the elders: Why the oldest animals matter

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Apr 2025
Sumatran elephant in North Sumatra Indonesia. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Critically endangered Sumatran elephant found dead near Leuser; cause uncertain

Ayat S. Karokaro 22 Apr 2025
Banner image of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park elephants in Escondido, California, courtesy of San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

Why captive elephants formed a circle during the San Diego earthquake

Kristine Sabillo 21 Apr 2025
Banner image of iconic tusker Unicorn in Minneriya, Sri Lanka, courtesy of Namal Kamalgoda.

Sri Lanka’s iconic tuskers ‘falling like dominoes,’ conservationists warn

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2025
Scarecrow to protect a fields and crops. Image by Tulsi Rauniyar for Mongabay..

Photos: The volunteers standing guard at one of Nepal’s human-wildlife frontiers

Tulsi Rauniyar 9 Apr 2025
Elephant Solar Fence, India.

Can solar fences stop human-elephant conflict in India?

Gowthami Subramaniam 9 Apr 2025
Banner image of elephant statues in Bahundangi, Nepal. Image by Deepak Adhikari.

Nepali farmers switch crops to reduce human-elephant conflict

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2025
Elephants Crossing Ewaso Ewaso Ng'iro river, Samburu, Kenya. Image courtesy of Fritz Vollrath

For wandering elephants, path of least resistance could help map out safe corridors

Ryan Truscott 31 Mar 2025

The vanishing trail of Sri Lanka’s iconic tuskers calls for urgent action

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Mar 2025
Iain Douglas-Hamilton seated on the ground, writing in a notebook, two elephants in the background. Image courtesy Save the Elephants.

Lives worth living: Elephants, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and the fight for coexistence

Leonie Joubert 13 Mar 2025
Locals look at a herd of elephants passing close to their village in northeastern Bangladesh.

Asian elephants fall victim to poor development policies in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 12 Mar 2025
Elephant society is dynamic and very complex. Image by O’Connell’s & Rodwell.

Male African elephants develop distinct personality traits as they age, study finds

Leocadia Bongben 25 Feb 2025
A wild Asian elephant in Nepal's plains. Image courtesy of Ashok Ram

As elephant conflict shifts, Nepal’s border village offers clues for coexistence

Deepak Adhikari 18 Feb 2025
The makuna photographed in Sauraha, Chitwan in September 2024. Image courtesy of Madhu Chetri.

In Nepal’s Chitwan, elephant’s shooting, death raises eyebrows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Feb 2025

How a Nepali border village learned to live with migratory wild elephants

Deepak Adhikari 30 Jan 2025

Vietnam grapples with ‘alarming popularity’ of online illegal wildlife trade

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2025

Elephants, gorillas and chimps hold out in Cameroon’s largest protected landscape

Leocadia Bongben 16 Jan 2025

Officials pledge zoo review after Sumatran elephant is killed in Bali flood

Luh De Suriyani 19 Dec 2024

‘Like you, I fear the demise of the elephants’

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Dec 2024

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