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“Animal support groups fear for elephants in India and Africa following the British government’s official backing to China to buy ivory. The government voted in China’s favour at the UN, despite protests from its own MPs. The vote, at a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), gives China the right to buy ivory auctioned by four southern African countries, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.” - Thaindian News

“Environment minister Hillary Benn is to rule on whether Britain’s last circus elephant - Anne - can go free.” - Sunday Mirror

“The last touring elephant in Britain will not enter the big tent in Ayrshire after animal campaigners raised objections.” - BBC NEWS

“Our campaign to free Anne, Britain’s last circus elephant, has been dealt a blow by Environment Minister Ben Bradshaw.” - SundayMirror.co.uk

“The 400,000-year-old remains of a massive elephant discovered near London provide the first evidence that Stone Age humans in Britain hunted and ate the ancient animals, scientists say.” - National Geographic News

“Bones and tusks dating back 400,000 years are the earliest signs in Britain of ancient humans butchering elephants for meat, say archaeologists.” - BBC NEWS

“ajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who is on a 15-day tour of Britain and the US, has promised to take good care of elephants in the proposed ‘Hathi Gaon’ or elephant village at Amber in Jaipur.” - India News

“A consignment of elephant dung large enough to fertilise the average suburban garden for a year will be auctioned tonight at a gathering of Britain’s Asian business elite attended by the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.” - Telegraph

“A TEN-year-old boy from Bollington has launched a campaign to secure the release from captivity of the last performing circus elephant in the UK.” - Macclesfield Express

Law set to ban circus tricks by wild animals