The injured elephant from Athirappilly in Thrissur district of Kerala, which was tranquillised and transferred to the Abhayaranayam Elephant Camp at Kodanad for treatment just two days ago ...

Bhubaneswar: Once renowned for its thriving elephant population, historically supplying war elephants to kings, including the ...

Kerala is now home to 389 captive elephants, a considerable fall from the 521 that were enumerated during a Statewide exercise in 2018. The latest captive elephant census was concluded by the ...

In recent months, Kerala has witnessed a surge in fatal wild elephant attacks, triggering growing protests against the Forest Department. Residents demand urgent intervention to prevent further ...

Many temples in South India have elephants on their premises, blessing devotees with their trunks. In an innovative twist, Kerala has embraced a 'cruelty-free' way of continuing this tradition.

The bench observed that elephants in Kerala are widely used in temples in ... so commercialised that even before a festival there is a war or a sort of competition amongst temple committees ...

The Chettimoorthi Kavu temple in Kerala's Malappuram district utilized a lifelike robotic elephant for rituals and a procession due to difficulties in securing live elephants. The event ...

The Irinjadappilly Sree Krishna Temple in Kerala introduces a lifelike mechanical elephant, replacing live animals in its rituals. Standing 11 feet tall and weighing 800 kg, this innovation marks ...

It flaps its ears and squirts water from a waving trunk, but this elephant is a life-size mechanical replica rolled out to replace the endangered animals in Kerala temples. Adorned robotic ...

This innovative initiative provides a cruelty-free alternative for temple rituals, addressing the growing concerns over captive elephant mistreatment and festival-related accidents. With Kerala ...

In a historic and compassionate decision, the Sree Kumaramangalam Subramanyaswamy Temple in Kumarakom, Kerala, has put an end to its 120-year-old tradition of parading elephants during its annual ...

newly donated by the Voice for Asian Elephants Society (VFAES), for religious rituals at the Chakkamparambu Bhagavathy temple in Thrissur, in India's Kerala state. The elephant flaps its ears and ...