“Elephant populations were recovering in a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s war-torn east, mostly due to anti-poaching efforts, said conservationists on Friday.” - News24
“Ole, a two-year-old Thai elephant, stands side-on to traffic in the middle of a four-lane street in central Bangkok, trunk swinging erratically as buses, taxis and motorbikes whiz past on either flank. For eight hours each night he walks through choking fumes, stopping only when a customer, Thai or tourist, buys a 20 baht (60 cent) bag of sugarcane to feed him and snap a photo. For the next few months, this will be his life.” - smh.com.au
“A pact for a new transfrontier game park straddling the borders between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe was signed on Thursday.” - Mail & Guardian Online
“Wildlife conservationists estimate that the Asian elephant will be extinct in many parts of its natural range (including Thailand) within 50 years. One of the reasons for this impending tragedy is unwittingly touched upon by Hancocks — elephants require a lot of space to exist in a natural environment. The need and the desire of humans for productive farmland and forest products produce a conflict with wildlife, and the result is predictable. In Thailand there are now more elephants working in tourist camps or used by their owners to beg for money on city streets than there are in the wild.” - theage.com.au
“Two years after their last appearance, two African elephants are scheduled to return to Abington with the Cole Bros. Circus on Monday and Tuesday at Memorial Field.” - The Boston Globe
“The National Zoo has announced plans for a new $60 million “Elephant Trails” exhibit that will dramatically expand and upgrade its current facility for Asian elephants and try to be a centerpiece for breeding and conservation efforts to stop the endangered species from becoming extinct.” - The Boston Globe
“The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., yesterday announced its intention to build a 3.5- acre outdoor area and renovated barn to house 8 to 10 adult Asian elephants and their offspring. While the Zoo’s existing 1930s-era Elephant House and one acre of space is wholly inadequate to meet the complex needs of the three elephants already living there, the expanded exhibit will still not deliver a decent quality of life for elephants even at the estimated cost of $60 million — half of which Americans would pay for with their federal tax dollars.” - IDA eNews: 6/21/06 : Indybay
“Numbers of elephants and other large mammals have increased in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park since the last census three years ago, conservation groups in the United States and DRC report.” - Environmental News Service
“The National Zoo announced plans yesterday for a new $60 million “Elephant Trails” exhibit that will dramatically expand and upgrade its current facility for Asian elephants and try to be a centerpiece for breeding and conservation efforts to stop the endangered species from becoming extinct.” - The Washingtom Post
“For more than a month, an 18-month-old male elephant had been desperately searching for his mother, not knowing that she had died of gunshot wounds to her head at Kampung Pulau Cheri near here last month. ” - The Star
“Animal rights activists blasted Tuesday the Los Angeles Zoo’s treatment of an elephant who died earlier this month and said they want federal officials to investigate the pachyderm’s death.” - cbs2.com
“The National Zoo has launched a new campaign to help save the endangered Asian elephant.
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“Virunga is the most species-rich park in Africa. Civil war and poaching in recent years had reduced the elephant population from 4,300 in the 1960s to just 265 three years ago. In a new census, the population was up to 340.” - LiveScience.com
“Eight Asian elephants earmarked for Australian zoos are in good condition at a quarantine station in Thailand, but there is still no firm date for their arrival.” - theage.com.au
“After having worldwide success with a paper made from kangaroo poo, a company in north-western Tasmania has signed up with Sydney’s Taronga Zoo to make use of its elephant waste” - ABC.au
