Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren addresses rising man-elephant conflicts after 27 fatalities in multiple districts. He mandates a mechanism to prevent human deaths and maps elephant corridors.

Chikkamagaluru: A 45-year-old daily wage labourer was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Hunsehalli-Malligekhan region ...

Despite having only a fraction of India’s elephant population, Odisha’s fatality rate is disproportionately high.

Jharkhand CM directs officials to prevent human deaths from elephant attacks amid rising fatalities in man-elephant conflicts ...

Odisha continues to earn the dubious distinction of recording maximum human deaths owing to human-pachyderm conflict despite being home to a lower number of elephants compared to India’s major ...

Odisha reported the most human deaths from elephant conflicts in 2024-25—171 people lost, which is about 8 deaths for every 100 elephants. That's a much higher rate than anywhere else in India.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. India is home to the majority of the world's remaining wild Asian elephants, like this herd bathing in Assam (Biju BORO) (Biju ...

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 ...

On the other hand, Odisha topped human deaths in 2024-25 with 171 deaths, followed by Jharkhand (87), West Bengal (53), Assam (74) and Tamil Nadu (61).