In India, elephants are not just animals; they are iconic figures, deeply intertwined with the nation’s spiritual heritage and rich history. Their presence at cultural festivals and temple ceremonies ...

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 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 ...

Seven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd crossing the tracks in India's northeastern state of Assam early Saturday, local ...

India has seen a total of 81 wild elephants killed in train collisions between 2019 and 2024, according to India's Environment Ministry [FILE: Dec 1, 2021]Anupam Nath/AP Photo/picture alliance Seven ...

No people were injured in the accident, despite a partial derailment. As elephant habitat shrinks, such deadly encounters are ...

Engineer-turned-conservationist Seema Lokhandwala has developed an AI-powered device that listens for elephant vocalizations and plays sounds like tiger roars or buzzing bees to drive herds away from ...

Long before zoos, wildlife documentaries, or nature programs ever graced the world, America’s first brush with elephants was not behind iron bars—but right in the heart of bustling town squares. The ...

Bangladesh is planning to declare a major elephant habitat in its northeast, which has recently seen a rise in human-elephant conflicts, a protected area. Bangladesh is one of the few countries home ...

In the first decades of the 19th century, long before there were zoos and nature shows on television, the earliest glimpse Americans had of elephants was not in cages but thundering along the dusty ...