“Animal activists threatened the Limpopo provincial government with court action this week in a bid to rescue six young elephants plucked heartlessly from their family groups and sent for training at an elephant-back safari outfit.” - Mail & Guardian Online
“Oregon Zoo Deputy Director Mike Keele, an elephant expert who has traveled extensively in Africa, will lead an 11-day excursion to Botswana. The tour takes place Nov. 7-18, 2006, and is timed to take advantage of the annual flooding of the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana. Each year, after the rainy season, the delta floods, and animals from across the savanna flock there to mate and raise their young alongside its plentiful banks. Antelope, zebra, lion, hyena, buffalo, leopard, cheetah, giraffe and elephant are just some of the species that may be seen.” - KATU 2
“Villagers in southern Zambia have threatened to dig trenches to capture herds of marauding elephants, accused of destroying crops and food stores, if authorities do not tackle the problem, reported the country’s newspapers on Thursday.” - News24
“You’ll remember that the sensational boulder-cam uncovered the amorous antics of lions in the wild, then become a marital aid for bears in the wood. Well, dung-cam outdoes its predecessors by shooting uninhibited shots of the biggest beast of all, the African elephant.” - -theage
“A 3.7-acre, $39 million elephant exhibit will be built at the Los Angeles Zoo under a plan the City Council approved Wednesday. ” - cbs2.com
” What is truly extraordinary about Kaziranga is its spectacle of wildlife. In the appropriate season, one can see almost every wildlife species that the park is known for in just a two-hour jeep ride. Then there is the customary elephant ride. An hour’s ride upon the pachyderm gets you up close to the rhinos.” - The Hindu
“The elephants at the Reid Park Zoo won’t be packing up their trunks anytime soon. The Tucson City Council voted 6-1 last week to move Connie and Shaba from their current half-acre enclosure to a new 3-acre savannah, rather than examine the possibility of sending the elephants to another zoo with more space, or to an elephant sanctuary.” - Tucson Weekly
“A 3.7 acre, $39 million elephant exhibit will be built at the Los Angeles Zoo under a plan the City Council approved today.” - abc7.com
“As cars whizz past Victory Monument, five-year-old Lum Yai performs tricks under a grimy flyover. She spins a multicolored hula-hoop on her front leg, then squirts water at sopping Songkran revellers with her trunk. For this she will get plenty of laughs and 40 baht. Streetside diners normally only pay 20 baht for the privilege of feeding her a small bag of sugarcane.” - IHT ThaiDay
“A herd of 150 elephants has crossed from southern Sudan into Uganda, causing panic as the beasts camped in the villages near Otze-Dufile wildlife reserve in Moyo district.” - New Vision Online
” The proposed plantations will also destroy a habitat crucial for elephants. Belum-Temenggor harbours between 150 and 200 elephants, many relocated there from other cleared forests. Herds traverse the highway, feeding along the way. ” - The Star Online
“An elephant that ran amok after killing a man in Parvaur town on Sunday night was tranquillised early on Monday morning.” - The Hindu
“Apparently, even elephants aren’t exempt from two things humans fear most: death and taxes.” - The Southern Illinoisan
“Dalma is home to a large number of elephants, explained a forest official, but many of them migrate to Chhattisgarh and other neighbouring states this time of the year in search of food and water. This makes it difficult to spot wild creatures in the sanctuary.” - The Telegraph
“Every day a herd of elephants visits the Maha Oya river to dip their trunks in the water or have their backs scrubbed clean by one of their carers at the Pinnawela elephant orphanage.” - People’s Daily Online
