“Rogue elephants have killed another man in Wokha, this time in Yanmhon. One Belka Orang, an Adivasi, was killed on November 29, when elephants went on a spree destroying paddy fields, fishery ponds and plantations and even government and private houses in and around Yanmhon.” – Morung Express News –

“A man was trampled to death and a home destroyed after sixteen wild elephants rampaged through a village on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said on Wednesday.” – The Straits Times

“Kenya’s high court on Friday awarded a British woman 65 million shillings (£533,000) in damages after she was attacked and seriously wounded by an elephant while staying at a safari lodge in 2000. ” – (via) Telegraph

“Noted Assamese wildlife filmmaker Gautam Saikia’s documentary on elephant-human conflict has won rave reviews at the ongoing International Film Festival of India (IFFI) here.” – Nhatky

“Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) supporters burnt down a portion of the forest beat office at Kalabari in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district after one of their leaders was attacked and injured by a wild elephant here Monday night, the police said Tuesday. Three rooms of the beat office were gutted while the mob also beat up a forest guard, said district forest officer Kurseong Y.T. Aden.” – Thaindian News

“The Department of Wildlife has now decided to pay compensation to all people who are victims of wild elephant attacks. ” – Sri Lanka News

“Wild elephants are intelligent. They uproot fully grown trees and hurl them on solar/electric fences erected to deter them from entering fields bordering forests. They wait for a downpour or throw water on chilli-tobacco fences to remove their tangy sting. Then they literally trample across the barrier and feast on the crops.” – DNA

“African forest elephants live in fear of roads which they associate with poachers and death, scientists have discovered.” – Telegraph

“There are fewer than 300 wild elephants left in China, so when Jeremy McGill, an American tourist, stumbled across a group of adults earlier this year in a nature reserve in Yunnan province, near the border with Laos, he whipped out his camera and started taking pictures. It almost cost him his life.” – The Independent

“Four people were killed in elephant rampage in southern Nepali districts, local newspaper The Kathmandu Post reported on Friday.” – China Daily

“Two people were killed and one injured when a wild elephant went on the rampage in Dhanusa district on Thursday.” – eKantipur.com

“At least two people and an elephant have died in the human-elephant conflict prevalent in SriLanka’s rural north central and eastern areas, police said Tuesday. ” – China View

“Kalosona Chalak and two others had gone to Poradiha jungles in the morning to collect leaves, where they came face to face with an elephant herd. While the other two ran to safety, Chalak could not flee due to his age and one of the tuskers hurled him into the air. ” – The Times of India

“Implementers of an international project to help endangered elephants in Mali want to prove that by doing so, they can also help local communities adapt to climate change in the Sahel.” – Garowe Online

“Rebels and soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed more than a 10th of the elephants in one of Africa’s oldest national parks as demand for ivory in China grows, said Emmanuel de Merode, director of the Virunga National Park. ” – Bloomberg.com

“Rombo District Council in Kilimanjaro Region has incurred a loss of 718m/- due to destruction done by elephants which wandered into the villages from Tsavo National Park in neighbouring Kenya and ruined food crop farms.” – Tanzania Standard Newspapers

“Rising elephant numbers in a protected forest park in Ghana are angering farmers whose crops are being raided in an unwanted side-effect of a plan to slow deforestation.” – Reuters.com

“Two elephants have been killed by FDLR rebels near Rwindi, in the central sector of Virunga National Park. The FDLR are comprised of Hutu militia who were involved in the Rwandan genocide.” –