Hello Amboseli field workers, thank you for all you do with the elephants and sharing info with us... I was looking on the Internet on Elephant In Amboseli, and I found this wonderful one! Which elephant is that and what Family is it from?? Thank you!!!!

Regular followers of ATE will know that with the help of KWS, Space for Giants and Savannah Tracking, we recently collared five female elephants from five of the Amboseli elephant families. Although our work is normally totally non-invasive, we took this decision in order to gain more detailed information on the migration routes elephants use within the Amboseli ecosystem.

Here's a website which gives an excellent idea of the Human-elephant conflict that happens with regularity in the Southern Indian Nilgiri forest ranges. These are the same ranges that houses ancient elephant corridors and which are under threat due to resorts constructed by many rich and powerful elite. (This is very close my current home-town of Coimbatore)

Unless more measures are taken to create viable elephant corridors in this zone, these kinds of conflicts (sometimes fatal to both human and pachyderm) are bound to escalate.

Here's the website.

Elephant ivory is worthless and should only be worn by elephants -- That was the strong message sent by Kenya to the world when President Mwai Kibaki set light to nearly 5 tones of contraband ivory in Tsavo West National Park on 20 July 2011.

The fate of a key Asian-Elephant migratory corridor in the Southern Indian state of TamilNadu that links the lush Southern Indian Nilgiri forests of the Western Ghats with the forests of the Eastern Ghats is going to be dictated by a case lodged in the Indian Supreme Court by a Bollywood star whose opulent resort, located right in the heart of this corridor, is going to demolished for maintaining the viability of this corridor.