Archive for January, 2005

Pachyderm Team Meal At The Arena

“The Circus is in town, and with it are some very hungry elephants. So Chef Robert whipped them up some of their favorite foods.” - First Coast News


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See elephants help set up circus in Gaffney
Letter: Circuses not just fun and games
Circus Elephants with Tuberculosis are a Real Threat to People
Elephants to stroll local streets
Caring for elephants, tigers a full-time job for handlers

Conservationists slam wildlife swap

“The Kenyan government plans to send hundreds of exotic and endangered animals to Thailand in a wildlife swap that drew harsh criticism on Monday from conservationists and concern from tourism officials.” - IOL


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Prospects low for Thailand elephants
Rehabilitated hand-raised elephant calves released in Manas National Park
Wildlife Corridor Project Gets a Boost
Advice on How to Manage Wild Elephant Populations & Richard Leakey’s Thoughts on Elephant Culling
Tourists seen as a lifeline for Laos elephants

Protestors Want Elephant’s Trunk Packed

“Protestors stood outside the Lincoln Park on Friday demanding that the zoo send their last remaining elephant to a sanctuary.” - NBC5.com


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Convictions clash under the big top
ASPCA Says The Greatest Show On Earth Hurts Elephants
Bubble Showman Tries To Burst Into Record Book With Elephant
Elephant polo sponsor plea
Controversial attempt to put elephant in bubble is back on

Baton Rouge Elephant Paints To Help Tsunami Victims

“BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo will be auctioning an original watercolor painting by Bozie, one of the zoo’s two elephants, to aid tsunami victims in south Asia.” - TheNewOrleansChannel.com

Labourer trampled to death by elephant

“A labourer was trampled to death by a stray elephant near Anaikatti forest area, about 35 kms from here.” - Chennai Online News Service


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Elephant dies of electrocution in Ramnagar
Man injured in attack by wild elephant
Fueling World Ivory Trade Spells New Threat to Africa’s Elephant Population
Man injured in attack by wild elephant
Grabbing tourism by the tail

Rare elephant twins watched closely in PE

“Twin elephants have been born in Addo Elephant National Park near Port Elizabeth - only the third time that twins have been born in the history of the park.” - IOL


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Mozambique works to attract big spenders to national parks
About a circus couple
Mossel Bay’s new baby elephant named
Namibia issues elephant warning
Parks Spending US$25 000 Monthly On Water for Jumbos

Congo Police, Army Involved in Elephant Ivory Poaching

“A new report on ivory poaching in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has picked out the country’s fractious army and the police among those heavily involved. The study by Congo’s national conservation body warns that if poaching continues at the current level, forest elephants will be threatened with extinction in the east of country.” - VOA


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Fueling World Ivory Trade Spells New Threat to Africa’s Elephant Population
USA’s Secret Ivory Black Market Second Largest in the World
A male Indian elephant eats bamboo
U.S. One of Largest Ivory Markets, New Study Says
Elephants are slaughtered for chopsticks

Loo role for elephants

“Jumbos in an elephant sanctuary in Thailand?s northern capital Chiang Mai have now been taught how to first wait, then use a sit-down flushing toilet. ” - Scotsman.com

Preview The Elephants’ New Home

“On Tuesday, the Seneca Park Zoo will show off its plans for the elephants’ new digs.” - 13WHAM-TV


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Animals as artists … seriously
An elephant calf walks around in the elephants enclosure of the zoo in Hanover, northern Germany, Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Zoo’s African elephant out sick this week
Natural and scientific enclosure for Assam zoo elephants
At the Zoo

Woodland Park Zoo elephant heads to Tacoma

“Bamboo, a 38-year-old elephant with no close friends at Woodland Park Zoo and a limited tolerance for the high jinks of baby Hansa, is packing her trunk and heading for the zoo in Tacoma, which welcomes prickly pachyderms.” - Seattle PI


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Animals as artists … seriously
An elephant calf walks around in the elephants enclosure of the zoo in Hanover, northern Germany, Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Zoo’s African elephant out sick this week
Natural and scientific enclosure for Assam zoo elephants
At the Zoo

Satellite Data to Track Wildlife: Elephants in Space

“Threatened by habitat loss, poaching, pollution and other factors, wildlife species across the globe are declining in number at an alarming rate. Scientists from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in New York City have been monitoring endangered wildlife populations for more than 100 years.” - Innovations Report


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Microchip implanted on elephant
An Elephant Never Forgets
Near-extinct elephants owe survival to 1700s sultan
Elephants warm to new diagnostic tool
Study: Elephants thought extinct may have survived

African sun puts albino jumbo at risk

“The baby elephant, spotted among a herd in the southern part of the Kruger National Park, could be an albino or white elephant.” - IOL

Kenyan wardens warn of increase in poaching

“Game wardens have arrested five people for possessing 36kg of elephant and rhino tusks during two separate raids in central Kenya, the spokesperson for the Kenya Wildlife Service said on Wednesday.” - IOL


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Fueling World Ivory Trade Spells New Threat to Africa’s Elephant Population
Elephants are slaughtered for chopsticks
Fears over Congo elephant killing
Fueling World Ivory Trade Spells New Threat to Africa’s Elephant Population
Congo elephants killed as ivory demand jumps - group

Monroe County Legislature Approves Zoo Expansion

“On Tuesday night, the Monroe County Legislature approved several measures including a $4 million plan to expand the Seneca Park Zoo, a plan for the Mill Seat landfill in Riga to accept trash from outside of the county, and contracts for the design and management of the proposed Renaissance Square project in downtown Rochester.” - 13WHAM-TV ROCHESTER


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An elephant calf walks around in the elephants enclosure of the zoo in Hanover, northern Germany, Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Zoo’s African elephant out sick this week
Natural and scientific enclosure for Assam zoo elephants
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Elephants saved humans from tsunami

“Elephant handlers in the tsunami-devastated resort area of Khao Lak said on Monday they owed their lives to their animals’ sixth sense, which also saved five Japanese tourists from the deadly waves.” - iafrica.com