Asian elephants are highly mobile mammals that roam vast distances in search of food and water. To do this, they need ...

India's top court has ordered tough new steps to protect wild elephant herds as habitat loss and human-elephant conflict ...

India’s Supreme Court has ordered states to keep elephant corridors open, ban coercive methods used to drive herds away and ...

Elephants act as landscape architects. They disperse seeds, shape forests and fertilise soil. They keep wetlands alive by ...

Read an excerpt from 'Mammals of India' by A.J.T. Johnsingh and P.O. Nameer, the first comprehensive guide documenting more ...

Human-elephant conflict in South India rises, with 130 human deaths in 2023-24 due to habitat loss. A new report calls for ...

A forested stretch outside Chennai, India, is offering a second chance to some of Tamil Nadu's most vulnerable elephants at ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

India's wild elephant population estimates have dropped sharply by a quarter, a government survey incorporating a new DNA system has found, marking the most accurate but sobering count yet. India is ...

Visitors will be able to get close to — and even touch — 100 life-size sculptures of Indian elephants which are beginning a cross-country journey. The Great Elephant Migration traveling art exhibition ...

Celebrating World Elephant Day (August 12, 2026) presents travellers with an opportunity to study India's forests that ...

When an elephant calf was found dead on the Sesar tea estate last year in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, workers there buried the body and erected a small temple to Ganesha over the grave.