A stroll with the elephants at dawn
“If you opened your eyes and you were standing on a dirt track, surrounded by waist-high dead grass, some trees and two African elephants, where would you say you are?” - ABC Western Plains NSW
Elephant kills man in China nature park
“An elephant has killed a man in a Chinese nature reserve where an American tourist was earlier severely injured, the state news agency Xinhua said.” - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Zoo welcomes killer circus elephant
“Two circus elephants have arrived at their temporary new home at Dubbo’s Western Plains Zoo in far western New South Wales, after one of them crushed its 54-year-old handler on Boxing Day.” - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Elephant crushes circus worker in Yamba
“A circus employee has been crushed by an elephant in Yamba, on the north coast of New South Wales.” - ABC News
Baby Elephant is Holiday Gift to Struggling Herd
“Sumatra is an ideal habitat for the endangered Asian elephant, but it also has ideal growing conditions for coffee beans. Wild Asian elephants and coffee beans had become unlikely competitors in this rapidly shrinking wilderness.” - ABC News
Preserving a Shrinking Population
“The World Wildlife Fund inspects damage to a village home in Sumatra. A woman was asleep in the bedroom with her husband and baby son when a wild elephant crashed into their kitchen.” - ABC News
Flying Squad: Elephants Fight for Survival
“It’s called the Flying Squad: Four elephants and a baby named Nella. Its mission? To patrol the increasingly contentious boundary between man and wild elephants on the edge of the Tesso Nilo National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia.” - ABC News
Elephants flaunt soccer, darts skills
“Thousands of tourists have flocked to Thailand’s Surin province to watch elephants show off their soccer and dart-throwing skills at an annual festival said to be the largest of its kind.” - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Elephant dies at Dubbo zoo
“Keepers at Western Plains Zoo at Dubbo, in western New South Wales, are mourning the death of a second animal in a week.” - ABC News Online
Perth Zoo puts down sick elephant
“The youngest elephant at Perth Zoo has been put down after an exhaustive battle to save her life.” - ABC News Online
Saving the Elephants
“Michael Fay grew up very far away from the wilds of Africa, in the relative safety of the New York suburbs. But he has become a passionate advocate of nature � one who knows intimately the wilderness he strives to protect.” - ABC News
RSPCA at odds with zoo over elephant’s care
“A row has broken out between the RSPCA and Sydney’s Taronga Zoo over the care of one of its Asian elephants.” - ABC News Online
Zoo loses big attraction
“Australasia’s oldest male asian elephant has died at a zoo in central-western New South Wales.” - ABC News Online
Australian woman gored by elephant
“An Australian woman is recovering in Royal Darwin Hospital after being gored by an elephant in Bali.” - ABC News Online
S.Korean Park Features Talking Pachyderm
“He’s no Dumbo the Flying Elephant but with his ability to “speak,” perhaps as close to the Disney cartoon character as a real life elephant can get.” - ABC News:
Paper maker adds new zoo poo to roo poo
“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
San Andreas sanctuary objects to network’s use of elephant images
“Images of some of this small town’s most reclusive residents strutting their stuff on a national newscast have triggered a tiff between animal rights activists and ABC.” - RecordNet
Elephants Escape Van, Graze by Highway
“Motorists approaching the Swedish capital late Tuesday were met with the unlikely sight of three elephants grazing by the highway, Swedish radio reported Wednesday.” - ABC News
