Elephant barn set to reopen
“Visitors to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium on Saturday will get their first chance to see the elephants since one of the animals killed a trainer earlier this month. ” - Pittsburgh Live
Archive for November, 2002
Game products fund boosts conservancies
“According to Esterhuizen five alternative water points for elephants were built at Orupuka, Okangundumba and Ehirovipuka conservancies in Namibia.” - Namibian
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Tourists seen as a lifeline for Laos elephants
Horrors elephants won’t forget
An article about the horrors of elephant “training” from the Captive Animals Protection Society. - Captive Animals Protection Society
Live hard, die young - how elephants suffer in zoos
“On 23rd October the RSPCA published the fullest ever study into the welfare of elephants in zoos. The study, conducted by scientists at Oxford University shows elephants die young in European zoos, having suffered from deficient enclosures, poor diet, illness, inappropriate social grouping, and rough treatment at the hands of their keepers.” - Captive Animal Protection Society
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Elephants perform circus tricks at zoo
A new article about the tricks elephant are made to perform at Blackpool Zoo in England. - Captive Animal Protection Society
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Big top back in town
Circus elephants in Hammond, Indiana. - nwitimes.com
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Motion requests govt to cull or trans-locate elephants
“The parliament in Botswana debated a motion requesting government to embark upon a programme of either culling elephants or trans-locating them.” - Daily News Botswana
Big balloons, shining celebrities and merriment
The parade started in 1924 and for the first three years live animals, such as elephants and bears, were used. The animals were scaring children so they stopeed using them in the parade. Today we have giant balloons instead. - Record Online
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Seven doves die in Kaziranga Park, India
It is believed that the doves may have been poisoned in a similar manner as seven elephants last July. - Outlook India
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Parks Spending US$25 000 Monthly On Water for Jumbos
Saving elephants results in exploding population
“The elephant population has been growing at a rate of 7% per year in Kruger National Park in South Africa.” - Post-Gazette
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PETA sues Empire Circus
PETA filed a lawsuit against the Empire Circus in India because the circus is not registered with the Animal Welfare Board, which it must be in order to use animals for entertainment. The article mentions that the elephants are kept shackled. - MidDay.com
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Kathy Sh-Boom Died of a Heart Attack
The autopsy of the elephant who died in an Illinois Zoo earlier this week apparently died of a heart attack. - WHBF 4
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Convention Adopts Stronger Controls On Wildlife Conservation
The European Communitys Take on the Outcome of the CITES Conference. - Europa World
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Wildlife researcher captures jaguars with camera
This article discusses how wildlife researchers obtain their spectacular images. It makes a brief mention of elephants stepping on cameras. - EurekAlert
Elephant Was Exposed To Violence
Channel 4 in Pittsburgh reports that the elephant who killed her handler eariler this week was exposed to abuse, violence, and other elephants that attacked humans earlier in her life. - Pittsburgh Channel
