“Four elephants were crushed to death when a speeding train engine rammed into a herd of 12 elephants crossing a railway track in Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu early on Monday morning.” - Rediff.com
“As uproar over the death of a captured elephant, in the custody of country’s famed mahout Parbati Barua, refuses to die down, the Chhattisgarh government has been compelled to withdraw its orders about killing of two wild tuskers responsible for huge loss to property and human lives in Jashpur district.” - The Indian Express
“Mr Boro uses 250 staff and 30 elephants to help patrol his 475-square-kilometre national park at the foothills of the Himalayas, home to the endangered one-horned rhinoceros and Bengali tiger.” - The Age
“In the excavation area, archaeologists also found the teeth and skeletons of a dozen animals including elephants, rhinoceros, monkeys, bears, deer, wild boars and fish. The findings from the site also include potsherds, stones of olive and potter’s clay.” - Eastday
“The Delhi Traffic Police has sketched out a time-table for the 30 elephants living on either side of the Yamuna Bridge to cross over for their food and bath. ” - Dehli Newsline
“Three elephants that strayed out of a Kenyan national park had to be shot dead because they were terrifying local villagers, wildlife authorities said.” - Planet Ark
“The Department of Wildlife Conservation is planning immediate action to solve the Human-Elephant conflict in the North-Western and Southern Provinces where the problem is regarded as extremely severe, official sources told the Daily News yesterday.” - Daily News
“A hunter is wrestling with the ethics of killing two rogue elephants even as he tracks them this week inside the jungles of north-eastern India.” - IOL
“Are Los Angeles zoo officials about to break the hearts of two middle-aged elephants by exiling one of them from her closest friend to a zoo in a far away state filled with strangers?” - Planet Ark
“More than five years ago, he said, Botswana and Norway recognised the rise in the number of elephants, hence the need for a collaborative research programme on the potential problems the jumbos posed in northern Botswana. He said the Chobe Sub-district was chosen for the study because it had a lot of elephants and people were concerned about the damage caused to the environment. ” - Daily News Botswana
“The stories of deprivation, of mothers who have lost offspring or vice versa, are among the most difficult to read as well as the most powerful. The baby moose who would not leave her dead mother’s bones, the chimpanzee who literally died of grief after his mother?s death, the elephants apparently paying homage to their dead ancestors: The stories truly tug at the heartstrings.”Human Nature
“Elephants living at the Yamuna?s banks near the ITO bridge are starving. The Traffic Police won?t let them cross the bridge. A week ago they enforced a rule forgotten for years.” - Dehli Newsline
“At current kill levels, most species of apes and other primates, large antelope, and elephants will disappear from the Congo basin, with some becoming extinct.” - All Africa
“Gone too are the elephant rides that would leave kids enchanted. Today, a handful of animals and a zoo waiting to be shifted is all that is left and the zoo of 15 years ago is just a memory with old-timers.” - Express India
“A young Indian bull elephant captured in a state-sponsored management programme has died a gruesome death.”BBC News
