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 ...
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A biodiversity conservation group from the Northeast has launched a mobile app — HaatiApp — to reduce deaths/injuries due to rising human-elephant conflict in Assam and neighbouring states. Developed ...
Jharkhand, which has ranked among the highest in terms of human casualties during man-elephant conflicts, on Friday launched an elephant tracking app at an event to mark the 74th Van Mahotsava in ...
Conservationists around the world have increasingly turned to technology to adapt and respond to rising challenges in protected areas. One example is EarthRanger, which collects and integrates ...
A subsidiary of paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper Sinar Mas plans to upgrade a road that cuts through peat and mangrove forests that constitute a wild elephant habitat in Indonesia’s southern Sumatra. The ...