eleblog

“Eight Asian elephants bound for Sydney and Melbourne zoos will have spent at least a year in quarantine in Thailand before their fate is known.” - theage.com.au

” Juno and Savannah are staying at the El Paso Zoo but Wednesday’s decision does not bring to an end their story.” - KFOXTV.com

“What do hot sauce aficionados and African elephants have in common? They both feel the burn of chilli peppers, the key ingredient for resolving human-elephant conflicts in Africa while raising money for farmers and conservation. ” - Monga Bay

“Syracuse’s Zoo is looking forward to two elephant births. Targa, whose now 8-year old baby Mali captured Central New Yorkers’ hearts, is due any day. Romani is due next spring. In both cases, the father is the Rosamond Gifford Zoo’s bull elephant, Indy.
Zoo Curator Chuck Doyle has been saying for years that we need a population explosion to keep the endangered Asian Elephants viable, because most of the animals in zoos are older than breeding age, and the population is dying off faster than it can reproduce.” - WSTM

” Anecdotal and limited scientific evidence indicate strongly that central Africa?s forest elephants are in the midst of a dramatic decline due to illegal killing for ivory and meat, and habitat fragmentation.” - Monga Bay

“To cabinet ministers it seemed like a grand gesture, and a way of offering eight homeless elephants a new life in a luxurious enclosure.” - Guardian Unlimited

“The general manager of life sciences at Taronga and Western Plains zoos has defended a decision to undertake an asian elephant breeding program in Sydney.” - ABC News Online

“Local animal advocates reacted with anger and disgust this week to a report on the death of a 36-year-old African elephant that spent most of its life at the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park before being sent to Chicago in 2003.” - North County Times

“Narayanan has a problem. The 40-year-old elephant, owned by the Cochin Devaswom Board, has over-grown tusks. These impede its free movement and make it difficult for it to move its trunk. And, the growth is continuing, with the two tusks tending to converge. The Board wanted to trim them, but it needed mandatory clearance from the State Forest Department for such a procedure, and the Department was not easily convinced.” - The Hindu

“The West Indies cricket team had the opportunity to interact with some of Sri Lanka’s wildlife when they took a pause from cricket recently to visit an elephant orphanage while en route from Colombo to Kandy, the venue of the next test.” - Antigua Sun

“A global campaign is gathering steam against the unabated stone quarrying close to an elephant corridor in Kaziranga National Park. International wildlife organisations have started a ?Save the elephant campaign?, urging Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to stop human activities there.” - The Telegraph

“A showcase of work by young Thai artists - and elephants - is being unveiled in Edinburgh” - Scotsman.com

“A zoo association’s investigation into why a 36-year-old African elephant collapsed while being trucked from a Chicago zoo to one in Utah where it died, identified “several concerns” but found no gross negligence by the animal’s handlers.” - North County Times

“Elephant conservation should be considered in much the same way humans consider plans for their own health and well-being, an elephant management workshop heard on Tuesday.” - IOL

“Twitchfilm reports that “Free Jimmy”, an animated feature out of Norway is in the works. The lead character? A paranoid, drug addicted elephant. Jimmy is a circus elephant who makes a break for freedom, dodging hunters, his handlers and militant animal rights activists before befriending a moose.” - Dark Horizons