Living
Ashwatthama Gaj
Male · 5 yrs
Sauraha elephant breeding centre
Nepal
Sire Ronaldo (wild) · Dam Karnali Kali
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Range state·South Asia
Nepal
Terai grasslands and India-border corridors
Nepal's Terai lowlands hold a small but growing elephant population connected — when corridors work — to India's much larger herds. Community forestry and transboundary cooperation with India are the backbone of conservation here.
SubspeciesIndian elephant (E. m. indicus)TrendIncreasingWild~121
Asian range
~121
Wild population
Estimated in range
247
Database records
From elephant.se
241
Living
194 named
46
Camps
Distinct facilities
4Sanctuaries
1Hotspots
85HEC / year
Database
Featured records
Recently updated named elephants in Nepal.
Living
Bhadra Gaj
Male · 4 yrs
Sauraha elephant breeding centre
Nepal
Sire Himani Kali · Dam Himani Kali
Living
Bijay Gaj
Male · 3 yrs
Sauraha elephant breeding centre
Nepal
Sire Gandaki Kali · Dam Gandaki Kali
Living
Vedgaj
Male · 1 yrs
Sauraha elephant breeding centre
Nepal
Sire Loktantra Kali · Dam Loktantra Kali
Living
Yatrakali
Female · b. 2021
Bardia hattisar
Nepal
Living
Kumar Gaj
Male · b. 2026-03-28
Bardia hattisar
Nepal
Makuna
Male
Chitwan Forest Resort
Nepal
Living
Champa Kali
Female · b. 2014-03-12
Nature Safari Camp
Nepal
Facilities
Camps & facilities
Top elephant.se locations by record count — many linked to our curated sanctuary directory.
Curated
Sanctuary directory
Hand-verified listings tagged by experience type and welfare criteria.
On the ground
Coexistence in action
Field programs reducing human-elephant conflict, mapped on our range map.
Habitat
2015Terai Arc Corridor
Community-managed forest patches connect two national parks, giving elephants safe passage. Locals earn ecotourism income from guided corridor walks.
Impact
Connected 3 fragmented herds across 45km corridor
Connectivity
Migration corridors
Where habitat must be linked to maintain genetic flow and wild range.
Terai Arc Landscape Corridor
criticalAn 810km forest landscape connecting protected areas across the India-Nepal border. Would reunite three genetically isolated elephant populations in the Terai.
7,200 ha secured60%
Data source
Individual elephant records are synced from elephant.se by Dan A. J. Koehl, used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. We reformatted the data for search and filtering; the original records remain authoritative.
Records synced weekly into MySQL on mahoot.xyz.