“What’s the reality behind the photograph of the Shrine Circus elephant peeking out of the back of her semi-trailer in Friday’s (April 22) paper?” - Maine Today
“Orissa will soon use the Global Positioning System (GPS) to protect the state’s elephants that are facing serious threat from poachers and human encroachments. By fitting GPS collars on elephants, experts will be able to track their movements, identify encroachments and monitor the movement of poachers too, officials of the Wildlife department said.” - Sify.com
“Anne is a 52-year-old Asian elephant - the oldest elephant in the UK and only elephant remaining in a UK circus.” - GMTV
“Wildlife activists in Orissa have pointed at a bleak future for elephants in the state even as the wildlife department sounded optimistic over the results of the census survey.” - The Telegraph
“Dollywood donated one of their huge inner tubes from their smoky mountain river rampage to the elephant exhibit at the zoo.” - WBIR-TV, Knoxville, TN
“Animal rights activists who oppose a plan to transfer an elephant from San Diego to Salt Lake rallied outside the San Diego Zoo Wednesday, 10News reported.” - 10News.com
“A 10-year-old female African elephant has been found imitating the sound of trucks passing its stockade near a main route in Kenya, US scientists writing in the journal Nature have reported.” - Gulf Times Newspaper
“For example, WWF and other scientists just discovered in 2003 that Borneo’s pygmy elephants — isolated from mainland Asian elephants when Borneo was cut off from the mainland around 18,000 years ago — are genetically distinct from other Asian elephants and are likely a new subspecies. ” - Mongabay.com
“In 2004, Antonio and Maria founded DeMEC Limited, a jewellery company specializing in vegetable ivory, an organic material found in South American rainforests.” - CNN
“Wildlife officials in Orissa are trying to gather evidence that will help them determine the number of wild elephants in the state.” - NDTV
“Park authorities in South Africa have delayed making a decision on ways to curb the exploding elephant population in the Kruger National Park as experts remain divided on the issue, according to a news report on Sunday.” - News24
“Nine months ago, The Walt Disney World Resort animal care team welcomed a 230 pound bundle of joy to Disney’s Animal Kingdom. The female African elephant calf arrived on a Tuesday evening to join its 18-year-old mother Vasha after a 21 months (gestation) in the womb. Kianga is her name, which means “Sunshine” in Swahili.” - Mickey News ?o? -
“Despite all our efforts to prevent the Bumi elephants from being shot, we could not have predicted that the guardians of the wildlife, National Parks, would go in and shoot them.” - Kubatana
“One woman was injured Wednesday when a small herd of elephants broke out of a South Korean amusement park and thundered through Seoul.” - CBC News
“An elephant gored a tourist to death in a Ugandan national park after the man, carrying an eight-year-old boy in his arms, approached the animal’s calf, wildlife officials said on Tuesday.” - IOL
