To support their care, many private business owners host elephant safaris, organise festivals, or rent them out for marriage processions. Given the limited understanding of the potential negative ...

Nepal is home to some 227 Indian elephants (Elephas maximus indicus) — the number fluctuates as the pachyderms move across the plains between Nepal and India — and human-elephant conflict has ...

Nepal introduced many humane alternatives for safaris (by canoe, car or on foot) and a pioneer company has already unchained its elephants. There is a growing market for a more ethical kind of tourism ...

In Chitwans tall grasses, elephant-back safaris are one of the best ways to ensure a wildlife sighting. But among conservationists, the practice is controversial.

In addition, the Asian elephant population declined by 50 percent in the twentieth century, according to a 2014 CITES report. Elephants are responsible for 70% of human-wildlife conflict in Nepal.

The makuna, first seen in the tourist town of Sauraha in the winter of 2023, was part of a migratory herd moving along the traditional elephant migratory route in southern Nepal. However, it ...