“Indonesian villagers are threatening to poison rare wild elephants that are destroying their palmoil plantations in search of food.” - Yahoo! News UK

“Watch out Becks… keepers at the West Midlands Safari Park think they’ve discovered England’s next footie star.” - CBBC Newsround

“Zoos could become sustainable logistic centres as first trained elephant prepares for work on Southwark site” - Building

“Indians might be squeamish about paper made from ?elephant poo? ? as the stamp on the sheets declares ? but Shekhawat has found that it is a hit abroad. The paper is exported to Germany and the UK.” - The Telegraph

“When resources are scarce, who you know and where you’re positioned on the social totem pole affects how far you’ll go to search for food. At least that’s the case with African elephants, according to a study led by ecologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who collaborated with researchers at Save the Elephants, a non-profit research organization based in Kenya, and at the University of Oxford in England.” - Science Daily

“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

“A gun used to kill more than a thousand African elephants has sold for ?66,000 at auction in London.” - UK News Headlines

“The group slated the circus for being one of just eight circuses in the UK to use animals, including horses, camels and an elephant. It argued that Anne was transported from site to site so that visitors could have their photo taken with her, despite the fact that she had arthritis.” - St. Albans Observer

“A team of researchers from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in Swindon, UK, claim that an elephant can actually move to a point where all its feet is off the ground at the same time, which scientists consider to be running.” - - Discovery Reports Canada

“Using DNA extracted from a woolly mammoth specimen recovered from permafrost in Siberia, a team of scientists from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States determined the sequence of 5,024 base pairs of mitochondrial DNA. Although that represents only about a third of the animal?s total mitochondrial DNA, it was far beyond the previous record of 1,000 base pairs sequenced for a Pleistocene animal.” - The Columbus Dispatch

“The International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw) says nearly all ivory sold in the UK is sold illegally, because of “worrying” legal loopholes.” - BBC NEWS

“Animal lovers were urged today to boycott Toyota cars because of a TV ad featuring a 52 year-old elephant climbing out of a Yaris.” - UK News

“La Petite, a 20-year-old Asian elephant, has been living in solitary confinement in the Ramat Gan Safari Park since July. The animal, who has the unfortunate history of being an abused circus animal, was shunned from her Israeli herd four years after she left her previous home in England.” - Jerusalem Post

“Elephants, on the other hand, have been reported to “become excited and agitated if they come across a dead elephant,” said Karen McComb, an expert on animal communication and cognition at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.” - National Geographic News

“A TEN-year-old boy from Bollington has launched a campaign to secure the release from captivity of the last performing circus elephant in the UK.” - Macclesfield Express

“Anne is a 52-year-old Asian elephant - the oldest elephant in the UK and only elephant remaining in a UK circus.” - GMTV

“Researchers from the UK and Kenyan based wildlife conservation organization, charity Care for the Wild International (CFTWI) have released their findings of a recent regional ivory trade study in the Sudan. According to a report filed by researcher Dr. Esmond Martin, elephants are being slaughtered for their tusks by the thousands by poachers in the illegal ivory trade.” - Halifax Live

” Even as the film scales new heights of glory, the director is struggling hard to drive home the message he wants to communicate through his film. `The 18th Elephant - Three Monologues’, P. Balan’s poignant film on man’s cruelty towards elephants is now in the news as one of the five entries nominated for the Green Oscar, a biennial environmental film festival at Bristol, the United Kingdom (U.K.).” - The Hindu