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“Implementers of an international project to help endangered elephants in Mali want to prove that by doing so, they can also help local communities adapt to climate change in the Sahel.” - Garowe Online

“Sumatra’s endangered elephants and tigers should get a boost from an Indonesian government move to expand one of their last havens, a four-year-old national park on the island, conservation body WWF said on Thursday.” - Reuters

“A decision to allow the trophy-hunting of endangered elephants in Namibia has angered conservation groups.” - Telegraph

“A report that the ivory trade may lead to the extinction of Africa’s elephants by 2020 has rocked wildlife lovers across the world. ” - The Sun

“The number of poached elephants is on the rise and could lead to the extinction of large populations of African elephants in a scant 12 years, according to new research from the University of Washington.” - seattlepi.com

“African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989. But the public outcry that resulted in that ban is absent today, and a University of Washington conservation biologist contends it is because the public seems to be unaware of the giant mammals’ plight.” - EurekAlert!

“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

“Laos, once known as the Land of a Million Elephants, faces warnings from conservationists that it could lose its herds within 50 years if it does not move quickly to protect them with tourism eyed as a possible savior.” - Reuters

“Asia’s elephants once roamed across nine million square kilometres of forests from the Iranian coast to the Indian subcontinent, Java, Sumatra and Borneo, and China. Now extinct in west Asia, Java and most of China, about 40,000 to 50,000 remain in pockets of forest in 13 states.” - Reuters

“When the South African government decided to allow their share of the largest endangered land animal to be culled, it immediately raised a number of alarm bells. I can appreciate that the share size of an elephant requires adequate space to graze and roam. But with the continued loss of habitat, and the constant threat either for their meat; hunted and killed for other reasons or the highly prized value of their ivory tusks by some unscrupulous merchandise trader, this magnificent creature is surely in a precarious position.” - Antigua Sun

“A study from WWF claims that converting the forests and peat swamps of just one Sumatran province into plantations for pulpwood and palm oil is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands, and is endangering local elephant and tiger populations.” - guardian.co.uk

“Melbourne Zoo hopes to breed its first Asian elephant to help stocks of the endangered species.” - Herald Sun

“The paper in the Jan. 11 issue of the journal Science is the latest to chronicle one of many patterns to emerge since 1995, when UC Davis ecologist Truman Young fenced elephants and other large herbivores out of 10-acre plots in the central Kenya savannah.” - UC Davis

“One of the major threats facing elephants is the shrinking and fragmentation of their habitat. With encroachments on forest lands on the rise, the country has been witnessing elephant-human clashes. Reports of pachyderms dying of bullet shots, electric shock and speeding trains have become commonplace. Jayalakshmi K reports.” - Deccan Herald

“Now a study has shown that if elephants, giraffes and other picture-postcard animals disappear from the eastern African savanna, the ecological damage may extend, ironically, to the acacia trees they eat and cascade all the way to down to affect ants too.” - Telegraph

“The Wildlife Department has made arrangements to implement a special project called Gaja Mithuro (Elephants’ friends) to protect wild elephants faced with the threat of extinction and also to uplift the living conditions of families displaced as a result of the human elephant conflict.” - Sri Lanka News

“More than 1,000 elephants are set to gain right of passage through the corridor linking the Edayargalli and Doddasampige reserves when land deeds are handed over to the Karnataka state forest department on Thursday.” - AFP

“Once again Six Flags is making excuses for its failure to protect elephants from harm. In Defense of Animals stands by its report on a deadly elephant virus that zoos don’t want the public to know about. This virus kills 85 percent of the elephants it strikes and has claimed the lives of 10 elephants since 2000, including one at Six Flags in Vallejo.” - Vallejo Times Herald