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An elephant in Assam's Kaziranga National Park. India's Assam state has one of the highest incidents of human-elephant conflicts.

AI system eavesdrops on elephants to prevent deadly encounters in India

Spoorthy Raman 23 Oct 2025
A teenage mahout and his elephant in Bogura, Bangladesh.

Bangladesh plans to rehabilitate captive elephants in the wild

Abu Siddique 16 Oct 2025
Elephants move along a migration corridor in Kenya. Image courtesy of Hillary Rosner.

Migrating elephants get room to roam via community conservation efforts

Hillary Rosner 14 Oct 2025

Hyped reports of soaring Sri Lanka elephant deaths don’t match data

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2025
A herd of forest elephants.

Fear & uncertainty grip Nigerian community after fatal elephant attack

Samuel Ogunsona 9 Sep 2025

Data debunks spike in Sri Lanka’s elephant killings, points at media hype

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Aug 2025
Kavantissa, a regal tusker considered Sri Lanka’s largest elephant, stands more than 3 meters (10 feet) in height. He faces the risk of being killed due to his habit of roaming close to human settlements. Image courtesy of Gimantha.

It’s time to update the language of human-wildlife interactions (commentary)

Tracie McKinney 14 Aug 2025
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
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 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

US funding shortfall halts Nepal’s rhino census, sparks debate over methods

Deepak Adhikari 29 May 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

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

Malaka Rodrigo 21 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

As Sri Lanka’s rail tracks continue to claim elephant lives, experts suggest solutions

Malaka Rodrigo 7 Mar 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

Indian town trials virtual solar fences to reduce conflict with elephants

Mongabay.com 4 Feb 2025

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

Deepak Adhikari 30 Jan 2025

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

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Dec 2024

In Sri Lanka, election day is time for firecrackers — to ward off elephants

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 20 Sep 2024
The bone of an elephant that died from electric shock in Karang Ampar.

As human-elephant conflicts in Sumatra rise, so does risk from electric fences

Junaidi Hanafiah 29 Jul 2024

‘Explorer elephants’ in transfrontier conservation area offer solution to tree damage

Ryan Truscott 28 Jun 2024

Death of Umi sparks concern over electric threat to Sumatran elephants

Teguh Suprayitno 12 Jun 2024
Tigers in Nepal. Photo credit: DNPWC/NTNC/Panthera/WWF/ZSL

Fear and hardship for the last community inside Chitwan, Nepal’s tiger central  

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Jun 2024
Elephants

Exploring the science of Asian elephants: Interview with Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 May 2024
Elephant and calf in Moremi National Park, Botswana. Image by serenea_tang via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Analysis of largest elephant surveys ever shows stable population, but disturbing trends

Jim Tan 9 Apr 2024

Nepal’s human-wildlife conflict relief system hits roadblock with new guidelines

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Feb 2024

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