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“Sri Lanka’s wild elephant population has shown a marked increase over the last 10 years. ” - Daily News

“His job is to monitor the movements of the recently introduced elephants in the park (previously known as St Lucia Wetland Park) as they move between the eastern and western shore” - IOL

“When a concise history of the achievements and failures of the present government comes to be written, an accusing finger will point to the neglect of certain national assets. Wildlife conservation is likely to be one such casualty; the environment another. But the government still has time to redeem itself and its scorecard could be worse. ” - Bangkok Post

“Zimbabwe has emerged one of the best wildlife conservation and management countries in the world after being elected the regional conservation strategy co-chairperson during an African Elephant meeting held recently in Kenya.” - Sunday News

“Elephant-dung pages dispose of a massive waste problem profitably” - csmonitor.com

“Meeting under the auspices of the African Elephant Coalition, the group called upon the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) not to allow China to be a partner in limited ivory trade allowed by the UN body two years ago in The Hague.” - The East African

“Concerned over the growing number of tuskers’ deaths due to poaching, electrocution or accidents, the Forest Department of Orissa here recently held a workshop for local villagers over protection of elephants in the State. ” - Daily India

“Battery as well as solar panel-operated electrical fence, elephant protection trenches (EPT), watchtowers along the Goa-Maharashtra border area, pair of a male-female tamed elephants and an elephant camp at Pernem are some of the medium-term as well as long-term measures to be taken up by the forest department to control the wild elephants creating nuisance in the Northernmost part of Goa.” - Navhind Times

“African elephant range states meeting in Mombasa, Kenya, have raised exception with undue focus on ivory trade within the CITES framework, saying preference should instead be given to conservation of elephants and mitigating challenges such as human wildlife conflict, law enforcement, building management capacity for range states and establishing mechanisms for local and trans- boundary elephant translocations. ” - International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)

“Project Elephant (PE), a centrally sponsored scheme, was launched in February 1992 to provide financial and technical support to major elephant bearing States in the country for protection of elephants, their habitats and corridors. It also seeks to address the issues of human-elephant conflict and welfare of domesticated elephants. The Project is being implemented in 13 States / UTs , viz. Andhra pradesh , Arunachal Pradesh , Assam , Jharkhand , Karnataka , Kerala , Meghalaya , Nagaland , Orissa , Tamil Nadu , Uttranchal , Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.” - PIB Press Release

” The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak is the sole location in Vietnam where there remains the tradition of maintaining herds of tame elephants in its districts of Buon Don, Lac, Ea Sup, and Krong Nang. However, the population of tame elephants is sharply falling.” - VietNamNet

“It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this Introductory Seminar on Conserving the Wild Elephants of Sri Lanka. As you may be aware, this seminar is a prelude to an exciting event this Saturday which will see the release of a number of rehabilitated young elephants to the wild in Uda Walawe. This process of rehabilitation has taken some years. If you have read the introductory piece on each of the elephants, you will notice that some of them had been saved in the nick of time. ” - Lanka Mission

“Sri Lanka on Saturday released eight orphaned baby elephants into the jungle after rescuing them from near certain death, wildlife officials said.” - AFP

“The proposal to set up a Borneo Elephant Conservation Alliance (Beca) is among resolutions made by experts to save the endangered Borneo pygmy elephants.” - the star online

“Tourists are being given the chance to perform a jumbo conservation task by helping capture and move a herd of 70 of the animals to a new home in the wilds of south-eastern Africa.” - June 3rd, 2008
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