Animesh Basu.

Electric fencing along the banks of Mechi river in Bahundangi village of Nepal has led to multiple elephant deaths in the Naxalbari-Kharibari belt that borders the Himalayan kingdom.

A two-year-old elephant calf was killed after being hit by the Alipurduar-bound Kanchan Kanya Express on Monday.

An adult female elephant died of electrocution at Bhatpara’s Bijoypur Bustee in Buxa Tiger Reserve forest in Alipurduar’s Kalchini block on Monday. The body of the elephant was recovered on Tuesday night, reports Pinak Priya Bhattacharya.

A female elephant and her calf were found dead at Khuklan forest village near Sukna in Darjeeling on Friday. The forest department, however, tried to suppress the news.

Pemba's wife told reporters that the family lost all communications with him since July 13 and she is hoping for a miracle to see her husband again. "Last Friday, a representative of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) brought the news that Pemba Sherpa is missing," she said.

The 168-km railway track between New Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar has again proved fatal for the elephants of Dooars.

Foresters on Saturday found the headless carcass of an adult tusker at compartment No. 6 at Nimti in the western range of Buxa Tiger Reserve Forest in Alipurduar.

An adult rhino was killed and its horn was chopped off at Jaldapara national park on February 5.The carcass of the animal was buried at the Torsa riverbed in BD -1 compartment inside the forest.

Camera traps laid by the Sikkim forest department have captured pictures of a Royal Bengal tiger at Gamtangpu above Lachen in north Sikkim at an altitude of 3,600 metres.

A leopard, apparently being chased by an elephant herd, was trampled to death by a male tusker leading the herd on Sunday morning at Malbazar, Jalpaiguri.

An adult female elephant was electrocuted at Bhandarpura village near Khuttimari forest in Jalpaiguri’s Banerhat block. The carcass was found in a paddy field along the forest tract on Saturday morning, making it the 14th such incident in the past year and a half.

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The first Sundarbans bird festival kicked off in the tiger reserve area on Tuesday. A senior forester said that the event would be conducted in both the tiger reserve and divisional forest areas from February 7 to 10. "Thirty members in six teams will observe the birds, write down their names and areas of occurrence.

A giant tusker, standing over 10 feet tall at the shoulders, survived being rammed by a goods train in the Mahananda wildlife sanctuary in the wee hours of Monday. It has been critically injured, though.

An adult elephant was electrocuted in Birpara area of Dooars in the early hours of Saturday.Before getting the fatal jolt the jumbo had raided a paddy field in a village next to Dalgaon forest.

Foresters at Jaldapara national park on Saturday morning recovered a carcass of an adult male rhino from the Bania beat in Chilapata range.

An adult tusker was electrocuted at Duramari in Dhupguri block's Moraghat range.The incident took place on Monday.The elephant had raided a potato field near the village near Khuttimari forest.

The Union forest and railway ministries may believe elephants are smart enough to follow "traffic" rules and will use underpasses and overbridges instead of walking across railway tracks in the Dooars forests.

Three elephants of a herd died and one was injured after being hit by a speeding Mahananda Link Express at Moraghat near Banerhat station early on Thursday morning.

The government is going to make it compulsory for herds in the wild to use underpasses and overbridges rather than walk across railway tracks that snake through the Dooars forests.

Less than a month after an elephant herd was shot at on the Indo-Nepal border, yet another herd was fired at by the Nepal police on Monday evening.

Leading bird experts who surveyed the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve over the last two days to carry out a bird census in the mangrove delta have called for creation of small protected areas in non-forest areas at critical locations for bird breeding.

In yet another incident involving jumbos on the Alipurduar Junction - New Jalpaiguri railway track, an adult cow elephant was badly injured when it was hit by a train near the Red Bank tea estate at Banerhat in the Dooars in Jalpaiguri district. The incident happened on Saturday at 10 pm.