Using DNA-based genetic mark-recapture techniques, scientists from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have pegged India’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

Dehradun: Electrocution, railway collisions, poaching, and widespread habitat loss have emerged as the leading causes of elephant deaths across India,.

Documentarian Kim Frank was drawn to investigate the mysteries of elephant migration routes in Northeast India. What she ...

Indian elephants are one of three extant subspecies of Asian elephants. Smaller than African elephants, Indian elephants have ...

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 ...