2006-07-20 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom. KRISTINA PEDERSEN
The elephants have been trained to paint in a bid to raise cash, from tourists, for their own upkeep and the conservation villages of Mae Sa and Lampang. Experts believe that the elephants memorize the image which they can then 'paint by rote' over and over again. Their works are being exhibited at Dundas Street Gallery in Edinburgh.
2006-07-10 - Cochin, Kerala, India. Juhan Samuel
Caparisons that were once used to adorn elephants during traditional religious processions, now are decoration pieces in homes and offices in Kerala. The huge, three piece ornamental set, consisting of a headgear, an umbrella, decorative fans and a bunch of yak fur is traditionally made of copper and gold, and costs thousands of dollars. Entrepreneurs in Kerala have now devised a way of making the jewellery of High Impact Polymer (HIP), a synthetic organic compound, bringing down the cost ten ti...
2006-07-10 - Bangkok, Thailand.
A senior Thai veterinarian said every elephant in the country should be implanted with a microchip to help protect the troubled pachyderm population. The Bangkok City authority wants to crack down on the hundreds of elephants and their panhandling mahouts who descend on the capital every year. The effort will be quickly abandoned because the authorities will soon despair of dealing with the heavyweight vagrants, predicted Alongkorn Mahannop, a vet sponsored by the Royal Household.
2006-07-07 - Calcutta, India. Mamoni Raisom Goswami
My forefathers were the adhikars of the Satra (Vaishnavite monastery) and it was a tradition to keep many elephants, both for work and travelling. We had several elephants and I remember the dhuri (cow) with the single tusk, which my grandmother used to take out for grazing to our backyard. Whenever we visited Amranga, we were given an elephant for joy rides and to play with.
2006-07-03 - Zagreb, Croatia.
Suma, a 45-year-old elephant and long-time resident of the Zagreb Zoo, was bereaved and inconsolable after her pachyderm partner of 10 years died of cancer. Until she heard Mozart. "Suma became very depressed after her roomie Patna died in early May," the head of Zagreb Zoo, Mladen Anic, said.
2006-07-02 - London, Canada. JAMES REANEY
Jumbos myth looms large these days at Museum London. Still, the truth about the big, dead elephant is so elusive that any hunter in pursuit of the pachyderm risks being captured by the game. That is no problem for wily Dundas artist and curator Andrew T. Hunter, who is presenting Jumbos Remains at the museum.
2006-06-28 - PARIS, France. James Mackenzie
Babar the Elephant, a timeless figure of children's literature, turns 75 this year, his trademark crown and green suit unmarked by changing fashions and criticism that his jungle realm is a relic of colonialism. Babar was created one evening in 1931 when Cecile de Brunhoff, a piano teacher, told her two small sons the story of an elephant whose mother is killed by hunters and who flees to a town where he learns to dress as a human.
2006-06-28 - Johor, Malaysia. SEE JU VERN
AFTER a bumpy ride from Kahang, Johor, the 24 participants of the One For The Elephant Expedition arrived at the Nature Education and Research Centre (NERC) at Endau Rompin. This part of the trip started off with a boat trip along Sungai Endau to track for elephants. We were taught to read elephants’ footprints we encountered along the banks of the river.
2006-06-27 - London, United Kingdom. By Neil Tweedie
A consignment of elephant dung large enough to fertilise the average suburban garden for a year will be auctioned tonight at a gathering of Britain's Asian business elite attended by the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall. The dung is expected to raise between £5,000 and £10,000 at a charity "durbar" being held in Richmond, west London, in aid of the Indian elephant.
2006-05-21 - Guwahati, India. Utpal Borpujari
A Supreme court ban on logging has led to the problem of elephants and their mahouts in Assam having to pace the streets, begging for a living. Mrinal Talukdar’s film focuses on this issue. A small film on a jumbo problem is Assam is creating waves. In Search of a Job, a 14-minute film by an Assamese journalist on the heart-rending issue problem of domesticated elephants begging on the streets after being made “jobless†due to the Supreme Court ban on logging brought under foc...
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