India's elephant population is estimated at 22,446, down 17% from 2017, with habitat fragmentation posing threats to their ...

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — For months an injured male elephant has been frequenting a village on the outskirts of India’s northeastern Assam state in search of food, bringing it into contact with people ...

Conflict between elephants and humans is a growing, and potentially deadly, problem in some parts of India. Now, the state of Assam, a northeastern region famous for its rolling tea plantations, has ...

India’s first nationwide DNA-based elephant census revealed a nearly 25% drop in the country’s wild elephant population over eight years, highlighting growing threats from shrinking forests and ...

Using DNA-based genetic mark-recapture techniques, scientists from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have pegged India’s elephant population at 22,446 in a recently released elephant population ...

Elephants have lost almost two-thirds of their habitat across Asia, the result of hundreds of years of deforestation and increasing human use of land for agriculture and infrastructure, a new study ...

'Abuses hurled, slipper raised': Lalu Yadav family feud intensifies; Rohini Acharya alleges insult over kidney transplant ...

NEW DELHI - 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 ...

Both government and independent data show thousands of human deaths linked to elephant encounters over multi-year periods ...

A passenger train in the West Bengal region of India mowed down a herd of elephants, killing five adult and two baby pachyderm, in an all-too-common collision between the animals and machines. That ...