This World Wildlife Day, Newsweek is taking a look at human-wildlife conflict, and why it is on the rise throughout the globe. World Wildlife Day is an annual event held by the United Nations to raise ...

Explore how Kerala can adopt Assam's effective strategies for managing rhino incursions into human habitats and reducing ...

Have you ever watched a bird feeder and seen two birds fight over a position at the feeder or a big bird like a crow or jay arrive and scare away the smaller songbirds? If you have, you’re witnessing ...

Adult rhinos and a calf in Kaziranga National Park. © Wikimedia commons In Assam, a state in northeastern India, authorities at Kaziranga National Park are restoring ...

Last week, an elephant trampled a woman to death in Mayurbhanj, eastern India, then returned during her funeral and trampled on her corpse again. The same weekend, a sloth bear mauled a man and woman ...

A man has been trampled to death by an elephant only three years after surviving an attack from a hyena. Mzee Musili Musembi, a 72-year-old father of six from Ilikoni village in Kenya's Kibwezi East ...

While wildlife activists say presence of senior officials where it matters will help in faster mitigation of human-animal conflict, Forest Department top brass claims all 13 forest circles have ...

Catholic officials in India’s Kerala state have welcomed a government decision to declare human-animal conflict as a “state-specific disaster” but protests continue against the state’s failure to ...