Over the past decade, nearly half of the country’s wild elephant population has been wiped out.

A wild elephant was found dead in Lama upazila of Bandarban.

A big portion of the wild elephant population in southern Cox’s Bazar is at risk of being wiped out, experts say. The mammals are confined to small patches of hilly forests in Inani-Shilkhali area as Rohingya settlements have taken over their migration corridors that lead to parts of Bandarban and Myanmar.

A wild elephant has been found dead in Bandarban after it drowned in a lake, a forest official says.

A wild elephant went on an hours-long rampage in a town in eastern India on Wednesday, damaging about 100 homes, shops and other buildings, a state minister said.