2023-11-01 - Bandipur, India. Vartha Bharati
In a tragic incident, an elephant named Vinayaka, also known as Akkiraja, residing at the Rampura elephant camp in the Bandipur tiger reserve, passed away on Tuesday. The sudden demise occurred after the elephant fell ill and collapsed during a training session at the camp. The exact cause of death is yet to be confirmed, pending the post-mortem report, according to officials from the Forest Department. Vinayaka, originally captured in the forest areas of Coimbatore in 2021, had l...
2005-05-22 - Bandipur, India.
Wildlife guide Jayaram Harsha heaves a heavy sigh as he talks about his recent work counting male elephants in southern India. The numbers are down and, he fears, may one day be out. "It is alarming," says Harsha, who says poachers who still kill elephants for their ivory tusks may have decimated the population. This will be determined by the largest ever census of India's Asian elephant population which began recently.
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