“In the center of a traffic-mobbed roundabout, encircled by the crush of cars and motorbikes, a small act of veneration regularly takes place. A small gray-haired woman buys a bunch of bananas and toddles with her cane up to Sambo, a 10-foot-tall, 4,000-pound elephant standing calmly in the urban chaos.” - csmonitor.com
“Camped in a field that backs onto Kirirom National Park, where some of Cambodia’s last 250 wild elephants roam, they repelled the animals’ by banging pots and patrolling frontlines. But not for long.” - Reuters
“The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is organising a railway tour covering the annual Elephant Round-up Festival in Surin Province as well as major attractions in the Northeastern region, the culturally diverse bridgehead to the neighbouring countries of Lao PDR and Cambodia. ” - e-Travel Blackboard
“DNA Solutions based in London, UK, is pleased to announce that it has agreed to work together with Fauna & Flora International, the world’s oldest conservation organisation, in using DNA fingerprinting to monitor elephant populations in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains with the help of our scientists. Elephant dung is being collected by field biologists and trackers, and transported to DNA Solutions, an accreditated DNA testing laboratory, where the DNA will be extracted and analysed.” - openPR.com
“Taronga Zoo keepers took DNA swabs from the huge animals in Sydney yesterday to try to make a genetic map of wild elephant populations in their native Cambodia.” - Herald Sun
“Cambodia’s agriculture ministry has given the green light to plans to run DNA tests in Australia on 520 dung samples collected in the country’s southwest Cardamom Mountains.” - Herald Sun
“Conservationists said Friday they plan to send some 520 samples of elephant dung to Australia for DNA analysis, hoping the results will help them estimate more accurately the number of elephants in the Cambodian wild.” - International Herald Tribune
“Melbourne scientists are to run DNA tests on elephant dung sent from Cambodia to help work out numbers and monitor wild populations in the formerly war-torn nation.” - theage.com.au
“A tourism official proposed to prohibit elephants from entering Cambodia’s Angkor Park, right after the government enforced a ban of dog at the heritage last week to ensure its peace and cleanness, local media said on Wednesday.” - People’s Daily Online —
“A tourism official proposed to prohibit elephants from entering Cambodia’s Angkor Park, right after the government enforced a ban of dog at the heritage last week to ensure its peace and cleanness, local media said on Wednesday.” - People’s Daily Online
“Conservationists estimate that Yor Ngun has killed at least 19 tigers, as well as 40 leopards, 30 elephants, 43 bears and more than 500 wild oxen.” - BBC News
