Sri Lanka is spending hundreds of millions of rupees on elephant management strategies that scientists, affected communities, but Sri Lanka’s own National Action Plan (NAP), as all acknowledge, is ...

Elephants roam the mountainous region of Taita Taveta in Kenya. As they cross the land, they graze on plants, stripping leaves from trees and bushes along the way. It takes a lot to feed a beast this ...

DHARMAPURI: Following the introduction of new technologies and higher vigilance, the Dharmapuri forest range has seen lower levels of human-elephant conflict. Earlier this year, the forest department ...

An example of a resting family unit, in the shade of a tree (with no mature bull present with the group). In Botswana, coexisting with the country's 130,000 elephants can be a daily negotiation. For ...

Buddhist monks and environmentalists have urged the Sri Lankan government to adopt a nationwide program to prevent human-elephant conflict, after video footage of a wild elephant being shot and set on ...

“The elephants didn’t mean them any harm” explained a resident from Bannerghatta, India who has to be careful at night in case the animals trample them. It is about living with nature’s large ...

The majestic Asian elephant has a place of honor in the cultures of South and Southeast Asia. In addition to their role in the natural environment, for millennia, these powerful but sensitive animals ...

In this first-person narrative, Honors College student and undergraduate researcher Avery Nicholas recounts her experience investigating the relationship between humans and elephants in Sri Lanka ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.