“A Nantucket scrimshaw dealer and a Ukrainian man are facing charges of smuggling sperm whale teeth and elephant ivory in violation of international treaties and a federal endangered species protection laws.” - International Herald Tribune
“Explosions from cannon fire filled the air as warriors astride silk-bedecked elephants swept through a battlefield in northeastern Thailand.” - International Herald Tribune
“A wild elephant was killed by a train while trying to cross railroad tracks in eastern India, officials said Wednesday.” - International Herald Tribune
“Efforts to save Sumatran elephants and tigers from extinction gathered steam in Indonesia, with government officials and experts vowing to find ways to protect the species’ dwindling habitat from loggers, farmers and poachers.” - International Herald Tribune
“Across the United States, some zoos are bowing to pressure from animal rights groups and shipping their elephants to sanctuaries, while others build larger enclosures to ward off criticism about the animals’ living conditions.” - International Herald Tribune
“Wildlife groups have created individual photo identification cards for Asian elephants in southern India in a bid to help track the effects of poaching on wild elephant populations, conservationists said Thursday.” - International Herald Tribune
“A stressed-out elephant that had been treated with the anti-anxiety drug Xanax died Monday morning at age 49 in a Texas zoo, according to a media report.” - International Herald Tribune
“Two wild elephants were killed when they were hit by a freight train in India’s remote northeast on Friday, officials said.” - International Herald Tribune
“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
“Elephants — long revered in India as symbols of wisdom and good fortune — are no longer welcome in Mumbai.” - International Herald Tribune
“An angry circus elephant in eastern Thailand grabbed a man who had provoked him and then stomped on him until he was fatally injured, police said Saturday.” - International Herald Tribune
“The mysterious illness that killed the Woodland Park Zoo’s youngest elephant, Hansa, last month was a previously undiscovered type of “elephant herpes,” zoo officials said Monday.” - International Herald Tribune
“The Luangwa Valley, the southernmost tip of the Great Rift Valley, was a wildlife paradise until the 1970s, when economic distress and a booming ivory trade turned it into a killing field. In the 1980s, 100,000 elephants perished in the valley; the number in North Luangwa National Park, with an area of 2,400 square miles, or 6,200 square kilometers, dropped from 17,000 to 1,300.” - International Herald Tribune
“African nations struggled to compromise Monday on competing treaty amendments for managing the ivory trade and elephant populations, which are exploding in some countries and being poached to their limits in others.” - International Herald Tribune
“A wild elephant killed a villager in India’s remote northeast while another of the animals chased fishermen in a swamp, authorities said Saturday, as habitat destruction forces the elephants to seek food in populated areas.” - International Herald Tribune
“Hundreds of Buddhist monks led by at least nine elephants marched to parliament Wednesday to demand that Thailand’s new post-coup constitution enshrine Buddhism as the national religion.” - International Herald Tribune
“Five men were arrested after being caught smuggling two elephants into Thailand from neighboring Myanmar, authorities said Monday.” - International Herald Tribune
“New Yorker Ashrita Furman looked around for a record he could break, and settled on doing the most squat thrusts in one minute. Then he decided on a place — the back of an elephant in northern Thailand.” - International Herald Tribune
