“Nearby, an elephant debates whether to oblige a bunch of excitable kids. Hmmm, why not? The pachyderm sprays a stream of mud over its body. That?s it, kids. Now get a move on.” - Mumbai Newsline
“The poaching of a young tusker in Orissa has once again highlighted the urgent need to keep wildlife crime under control. Male elephants are prized for their tusks, which fetch large amounts in the international market. The wildlife officials concede they lack proper training and infrastructure to tackle the growing crime.” - NDTV.com
“The 1995 moratorium on elephant culling in the Kruger National Park has not changed, despite the increase in elephant numbers, says chief executive of South African National Parks (SANParks), David Mabunda.” - news24.com
“Shivering monkeys huddle on a bare cement floor behind rust-scarred bars. Elephants, whose tusks lend civil-war divided Ivory Coast its name, struggle in thick mud. ” - news24.com
“Searchers seeking a MiG-27 ground attack fighter aircraft missing since the past one week in the thick forests of north West Bengal have taken to elephant-back. ” - Sify.com
“Myanmar officials are concerned that illegal logging and hunting are threatening the country’s wild elephant population despite the species being placed on the protected list a decade ago, the Myanmar Times said.” - Terra Daily
“Controlling the population explosion of the elephants of the Kruger National Park has always been a challenge. Again culling has been put forward as an option in the new management plan by the Kruger Park.” - SABCnews.com
“In an unprecedented move, the Detroit Zoo is setting free its elephants on ethical grounds, but the Calgary Zoo has no such intentions. Detroit’s Winky and Wanda will be relocated to an animal refuge this summer or fall because zoo officials feel the animals will be better off free-roaming at a massive refuge. ” - The Calgary Sun
“A drive to relocate 20 - 30 elephants from the Rajangana Wewa area to the Thabbowa National Park will be undertaken today, Director General of the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWLC) Dayananda Kariyawasam told the Daily News yesterday. ” - Daily News
“The Detroit Zoo will become the first major zoo to stop exhibiting elephants on ethical grounds because they can develop arthritis and stress-related ailments in captivity, officials said. ” - smh.com.au
“Using recent elephant attacks on humans as a reason to start culling herds in the Kruger National Park is shocking, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said this week.” - IOL
“A 51-year-old elephant, one of the two that had strayed into Bangladesh across the Nadia border about a fortnight ago, died last night. ” - The Telegraph
“Using recent elephant attacks on humans as a reason to start culling herds in the Kruger National Park is shocking, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said this week.” - IOL
“Elephant ears, a lion skin and a hippopotamus head were among exotic animal parts seized by French customs officials at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, the customs service announced Tuesday.” - Expatica
“Baffled, I gave up–and my pal, a fine musician in his own right, handed me the CD cover. Suddenly, it all made sense: the Thai references, the uncanny beats, the sense of some utterly foreign intelligence. The music had been recorded in Thailand, and the instruments had been custom-made for the performers. But the performers were elephants, residents of a sanctuary for working animals made redundant by the mechanization of the Southeast Asian logging industry. The Thai Elephant Orchestra, issued by the tiny Mulatta label in 2002, remains one of the most extraordinary listening experiences I’ve ever had, but I’m willing to bet that my introduction to the music pales next to that enjoyed by cellist Jami Sieber, who not only got to hear the elephants live, but managed to sit in with them, too. ” - Straight.com
