“Valentino, a 200-pound bouncing baby boy, took his first steps just minutes after birth.” - NBC10.com
“Heading the measures is a ?225,000 grant for a diverse selection of conservation project, aiding animals such as elephants, tigers and falcons. Other measures include continued backing for the National Wildlife Crime Intelligence Unit and joint-funding with WWF-UK of an enforcement officer post at TRAFFIC International.” - Green Consumer Guide
“Construction on a long-delayed breeding facility for two Asian elephants at the Honolulu Zoo is expected to start within the next two months, according to a city official.” - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
“Hollywood beauties Cameron Diaz and reality TV star Paris Hilton are teaming up to help an African elephant retire in style.” - TEEN HOLLYWOOD.COM
“Elephants Previously At Risk Of Departure Likely To Stay” - TheWBALChannel.com
“- The World Bank today approved a US$5.5 million grant from the Global Environment Facility to conserve and expand the Addo Elephant National Park in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The total overall investment in the Park will amount to US$40 million, including private sector and government investments. ” - NOTICIAS.INFO
“The controversy has spread beyond Alaska, with animal rights groups as far off as England posting photographs of Maggie on their Web sites and urging her transfer. Since her stable mate Annabelle died seven years ago, she has lived without the company of another elephant, contrary to national zoo standards. ” - Anchorage Daily News
“Elephants decked in zari and velvet finery is the picture India will present to the world when the Olympic Flame touches Delhi on June 10.” - The Times of India
“The Republic of Congo announced today plans to expand its protected area network for the purpose of further conserving the region’s immense biodiversity, one of the key goals of the 7th Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-7). As a delegate at the conference, Congo’s Minister of Forestry Economy Henri Djombo announced that his country will officially gazette the Bambama-L?kana National Park, a unique and spectacular mosaic of rolling savanna and gallery forest inhabited by elephants, chimpanzees, lions, and other savanna/forest wildlife, along with plans to expand marine reserves along the coast and create new protected areas along the southern border. ” - EurekAlert!
“Baira is one of 13 animals - three chimpanzees, an orangutan, three tapirs, four camels, an elephant and a bison - that suddenly and mysteriously died at the zoo between January 24 and February 14.” - IOL
“Zula and Tange were two of Chehaw’s first animal residents, on display since 1978. But the decision was made to move them to The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee. Currently a three hundred -acre habitat with eight Asian elephants, it is expanding to nearly three thousand acres. Zula and Tange will be their first African elephants. ” - WALB
“Daphne Marjorie Sheldrick, 70, began her career as a three-year-old when she hand-reared an orphaned baby antelope on her father’s farm in Kenya. Till date, she has brought up 54 orphaned baby elephants and rehabilitated 15 of them in the wild.” - Dehli Newsline
“The tsar’s gift would be the start of a beautiful relationship. Elephants have been constant tenants over the last 140 years. Last fall, the zoo opened a $20 million home for its seven elephants. In the 1980s after an elephant was born — a special occasion in the zoo world — officials received letters from all over the world with suggestions for a name. The baby was eventually called Elbrus.” - The Moscow Times
“The parks are home to numerous sensitive animals, including elephants, tigers and orang-utans, and have the highest plant diversity levels in the world. ” - Green Consumer Guide
“Special treats with a valentine emphasis will be handed out at 10 a.m. both days to sea otters Thelma and Eddie; at 10:30 a.m. to the zoo’s four female elephants; and at 11 a.m. to four female swamp monkeys that are each named after dairy products: Dannon, Gouda, Blue and Brie.” - StatesmanJournal.com
