“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
“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
“Protestors stood outside the Lincoln Park on Friday demanding that the zoo send their last remaining elephant to a sanctuary.” - NBC5.com
“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
“A labourer was trampled to death by a stray elephant near Anaikatti forest area, about 35 kms from here.” - Chennai Online News Service
“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
“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
“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
“On Tuesday, the Seneca Park Zoo will show off its plans for the elephants’ new digs.” - 13WHAM-TV
“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
“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
“The baby elephant, spotted among a herd in the southern part of the Kruger National Park, could be an albino or white elephant.” - IOL
“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
“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
“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
