eleblog

“A Lone Elephant has destroyed property worth over $30,000 on an Island on the Zambezi River in the tourist capital - Livingstone.” - Zambia National Broadcasting Cooperation

” A Lebanese has been arrested in Zambia for unlawful possession of 55 pieces of elephant tusks worth nearly 80,000 U.S. dollars and 58 rounds of ammunition, Times of Zambia reported Saturday.” - People’s Daily Online

“But behind the picture-book scenes a war is under way. Many people in Zambia and other parts of Africa are living in terror of elephants, which are becoming increasingly aggressive. Scientists believe they may be seeking revenge for the culling of their parents.” - Times Online

“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

“The reader learns that humans and wildlife desire the same things, and that we are troubled by similar concerns. The Owenses witness elephant populations struggling to survive as reproductively fit females perish at the hands of poachers.” - Scienceline

“Villagers in southern Zambia have threatened to dig trenches to capture herds of marauding elephants, accused of destroying crops and food stores, if authorities do not tackle the problem, reported the country’s newspapers on Thursday.” - News24

“Zambian Tourism Minister Kabinga Pande Wednesday dismissed claims spreading across Zambian borders that Livingstone in the south of Zambia has been turned into an elephant killing field.” - Xinhua

“Stories of elephants invading people and destroying their crops have been the order of day in most rural parts of Zambia for years, but now they have found that chili good remedy for ending this, reported Times of Zambia Saturday.” - Xinhua

“Poor villagers and wild elephants are engaged in an increasingly bitter battle for space and food in Zambia, with animal conservation authorities accused of doing little to end the conflict.” - IOL

” Migrating herds of elephants have destroyed property, ruined crops and even killed several people in parts of Zambia where villagers are increasingly angry ” - Taipei Times

“An ancient but now lethal migration route for elephants is to be demined in Angola, paving the way for swelling herds in neighbouring Botswana and Zambia to expand their range, the United Nations said on Thursday.” - Planet Ark