"Silver Monstra" a wild wounded elephant captured with the help of kumkis, near gudalur, the nilgiris. Photo: Arun K
I click this photo village dhamar Lakhipur goalpara. Photo:Bidyut Kalita
The elephant is sick, the villagers are trying to find out what's wrong with the elephant with the help of Forest Department . Photo: Litan Das
Elephant Forest department boat attack H D Kote Nugu Dam Photo: G Muralidhara
A Wild Asian Elephant herd moves through the tea bushes of the gardens in Tezpur, Assam while bring guarded by a strong individual elephant staying at the back making sure the herd is safe from onlookers.
Humans still approach wild elephants like chained elephants on festival grounds.. Photo: Sangeeth Kr
An elephant and an elephant keeper at the Konni Elephant Sanctuary. Sadness and isolation are evident on both faces. The expression of the animal deprived of its freedom is more pronounced. Photo: Rajeev Mannayam
It was taken in Masaimara. The elephants are going to eat grass together at early morning.
In Jungle Mahal & Chota Nagpur Plateau man elephant conflict is a regular habit,In a november evening a herd of 30-35 elephant came down in a paddy field beside of a sal forest.The local villagers & hula party of forest department trying to send them back in the forest, that types of conflicts rising day by day because of habitat shrinks..
Decreasing forest covers is one of ghe major reasons for man animal conflicts. Especially elephants who have had right of passage for centuries. Development of Tea estate have contributed in decrease of forest cover in this image you can see a family hurrying through the tea estate's in search of food and water in open cover. Photo: Abishek Vaidyanathan
A group of people look after the elephant on their own so that their livelihood is not disrupted Photo: PRANAV
A Wild Asian Elephant herd moves through the tea bushes of the gardens in Tezpur, Assam while bring guarded by a strong individual elephant staying at the back making sure the herd is safe from onlookers. Photo: Rajballav Sarma
The Pachyderm sprinkling holy water from Tungabhadra on devotees at Hampi. Photo: Prakash Tuljapurkar
The road going to Munnar Singakandam. Bikers running away from the tusker. Photo: Arid v k
The JUMBO JUMP of kaziranga national park i took this picture when i went for the shot to elephant camp kaziranga national park Photo: Sayan sengupta
From Chalakudy river elephant on flash Flood near Athirappilly, Pillappara Photo:
The Pachyderm sprinkling holy water from Tungabhadra on devotees at Hampi. Photo: Prakash Tuljapurkar
Its a usual routine work of mahouts in topslip Kozhikamuthi elephant camp. Here mahouts bath their elephant early morning and makes it ready for the healthy breakfast. Photo: T.Vijay
A man was clicking this photograph with his phone to capture this moment. Photo: Soumya kanta Ghosh
Anakulam, or elephant’s pond in Malayalam, is situated around 40 kilometers from the popular hill station Munnar. According to the natives, wild elephants and their claves from the forests under the Malayattoor forest division frequently arrive at the Anakulam river to drink water in the evening. And what really attracts these jumbos to this river are the water bubbles that have a particular salty flavor. Although the town is situated close to this river, natives say that this has not caused any disturbance. The elephants do not enter the human territory when they come here and peoples don’t disturb the elephants. Natives and elephants live in harmony here. Photo: G. SIVAPRASAD
A herd of jumbos being closely monitored by the Wildlife Conservators, also breaches their privacy in the wild, for what they ought to be left wild in their wilderness. Photo: Santosh Vijay
A man is seen with a t-shirt in his hands trying to chase away a herd of elephants straying into a Tea garden in Golaghat district, Assam. Elephants visit tea gardens to feed on green grass that carpets the tea gardens in this time of the year. Photo: HAFIZ AHMED
The loner bull was returning back to the Bengdubi forest after crop-raid through usual Asian Highway 2 corridor.But that early morning was a bit different.One scooty-owner parked his scooty on its way back.Getting agitated by the excited public,the bull hurriedly came out of the tea garden,chased the people and kicked off the scooty over its way back.Then it got back to the jungle easily. Photo:
The forest guards followed after the wild elephants that landed in Aralam Chakkad residential area as they were trying to send the elephants back into the forest. Photo: HARILAL.S.S
As the habitats change over time, this young tusker explores new places alongside a mountain highway thus putting up a show for the tourist. The boundaries are complicated that brings the tourist carelessly so close for a snap. Photo:
IndianElephantHabitatloss Human-elephant conflict is a major conservation concern in elephant range countries like India. Expansion of human settlements and agricultural fields across Asia and Africa has resulted in widespread loss of elephant habitat, degraded forage, reduced landscape connectivity, and a significant decline in elephant populations relative to their historical size and overall range. As their habitats shrink, elephants are progressively forced into closer contact with people, resulting in more frequent and severe conflict over space and resources with consequences ranging from crop raiding to reciprocal loss of life. Here as some proofs I am posting these pictures. With concentrating on Growing understandings of wildlife behavior and spatio-temporal patterns of human-wildlife conflict some management and development steps by Government will be always Appreciate ,buxatigerreserve
I was On the safary jeep. suddenly I saw a cute baby passing the road with his mom and group. Photo: RUNA BANERJEE
Now a Days human-elephant conflict is a burning problem in our country. This full grown adult elephant was killed by an over speeding train between Redbank Level Crossing and Deb Para Tea Garden, near Diana Tea Garden. The helpless creature was dragged on the railway track for about one kilometer before the train could stop. I used Canon 7d mkii and canon 55-250 lens. Photo: PUSHPAL GOSWAMI
This image was clicked in Manas national Park on a field excurtion trip to the locaton from our university. we were heading towards the Bhutan border when we had to stop as a herd of elephants were crossing the road through a corridor. It was really saddening to see how carefull the elephants had to be to cross this short patch which passes through their own homeground, just because humans want everything according to their own convenience. Photo: Dhiraj Kumar Das
ആർക്കും ആരെയും ശല്യമാവാതെ ആനയും തൊഴിലാളികളും അവരുടെതായേ ജോലി തിരക്കിലാണ്. Photo: Shobi Jose C
ആന ചരിഞ്ഞാലും തുമ്പിക്കൈ താഴുന്നില്ല. ഇപ്പോൾ ഉയർന്നിരിക്കുന്നത് മറ്റൊരു തുമ്പിക്കൈ ആണ്; മനുഷ്യനിർമ്മിതമായ മണ്ണുമാന്തിയുടെ. കോന്നി ആനക്കുട്ടിലെ അമ്മുക്കുട്ടി എന്ന പിടിയാനക്ക് ഇനി ഈ മണ്ണിൽ ഉറങ്ങാം, മണ്ണുമാന്തി ഉപയോഗിച്ച് അമ്മുക്കുട്ടിയുടെ ജഡം കുഴിച്ചിടാനായി വലിച്ചു നീക്കുന്നു. കോന്നി ഉൾക്കാട്ടിൽ നിന്നുള്ള കാഴ്ച.. Photo:
ELEPHANT WHICH ENTERED THE VILLAGE HAS BEEN TRANQUILIZED BY THE FOREST PEOPLE & FACING EACH OTHER. "PICTURE TAKEN AT COIMBATORE VILLAGE" Photo: C Sathishkumar
This picture captured on the Bandhipura Mysuru journey. Father and Mother helping their child cross the road very safely. Photo: SAJU NADUVIL
GOT THIS HUMAN-ANIMAL CONFLICT IMAGE FORM HEDIYALA, KARNATAKA Photo:
"Chained and beaten to the maximum", This happened in a place famous for elephant shelter in the Trissur district.This elephant was in musth condition, and after the period of musth, "Mahout have to reset elephants mind" as they said.so they have to beat this innocent animal to obey his orders. All in the name of God. Photo:
രാത്രി പൂരത്തിന്റെ മനോഹാരിതയാണ് ഇതില് പകര്ത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നത്. Photo: Shiju Panthalloor
Elephants and their caretakers are a good relationship but in festival Celebrations the elephants in chain For safety precautions Photo: Krishnakumar Muppathadam
This photo was taken at Brahmputra river, Kaziranga National park. After Elephant Safari is in the park for the visitors, the park rangers take extra care of the elephants and give them baths in the river. Photo:
Elephants and People- Bull elephant at the banks of a river where the trees were cut down for plantation purpose Trees are essential for elephant habitats. They eat the leaves and small branches completely, chew the bark off of the medium size branches, and use their tusks to scrape the bark off of the large logs. Photo: Karunakaran Parameswaran Pillai
This photo was taken at Gorumara National Park . This is one of the tar road between the jungle and sub road which connects to the main road . So always the tourist and the local people who travelled by the road daily was faced this kind of moment almost everyday . Photo: Partha protim Chakraborty
The photograph was captured in Khao Sok national park (Thailand), an evergreen forest with a healthy Elephant population. The floating raft house in Cheow Lan lake makes the tourist feel safe from the Elephant herd. The tourist group is enjoying their easy wildlife watch whereas the elephants are enjoying the grass meal on the lake shore. Photo: Anuj D Raina