“There will be no gawking at elephants this summer at the Buffalo Zoo. Two of the three female Asian elephants were transported to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium on Sunday night to make way for expansion of the Elephant House, and the third followed them to Ohio on Monday night.” - The Buffalo News
“Buki, Surapa, and Jodi are on the move. The Asian elephants will be gone for about four months as their new home at the Buffalo Zoo is being built.” - WBEN 930
“This year the elephant and buffalo census team, under the leadership of Dr Ian Whyte, who is conducting his 24th census, counted 13 050 elephants in the Kruger National Park (KNP). Although Ian retired earlier this year, he was contracted to conduct the census.” - Kruger Park News
“The accreditation hinged on the zoo’s plans to renovate the elephant house and veterinary clinic, which itself triggered an emergency $2 million fund raising effort by the zoo this spring.” - Business First of Buffalo
“The $2 million would be evenly split between costs to renovate the zoo’s veterinary hospital and to make interior upgrades to its historic elephant house that will give more room for the popular pachyderms.” - Buffalo Business First
“The residents raised the complaints during kgotla meeting that Vice President Ian Khama addreseed in the area The meetings started at Parakarungu last Thursday. Top of the list of problems animals are elephants, hyenas, hippos, Buffalo and lions.” - Latest News - Republic of Botswana
“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
“He saw a large number of vehicles with South African number plates. He says these people are on a killing spree. Among the carcasses he saw were lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, kudu, sable, impala and even baboon. He was invited to the abattoirs, which were full of game meat.” - IOL: SADC
