2010-08-27 - Kinshasa, Congo.
Police in northeastern Congo have seized 116 elephant tusks and arrested two men following a truck crash. Col. Sylvain Tshikez said Wednesday that the ivory was found inside jerry cans that tumbled off a truck involved in a crash. The discovery took place near the town of Kisangani in the northeastern Orientale province following the accident. The owner of the vehicle was seriously injured but was also expected to face charges.
2010-08-19 - Siliguri, India.
An adult elephant blocked railway tracks passing through Mahananda wildlife sanctuary two times today and damaged a train engine. The drama unfolded between Sevoke and Gulma stations around 9.45am when the driver of a passenger train that was on way to New Jalpaiguri from Alipurduar noticed the adult makna (male without tusks) standing on the tracks.
2010-08-13 - Hong Kong, China.
Stumped by a ban designed to save elephants from extinction, Hong Kong´s master carvers turned to a long dead species that left thousands of tonnes of frozen ivory in Siberian mass graves.Mammoth tusks, intricately carved to depict anything from devotional Buddhist scenes and teeming wildlife to bizarre erotic fantasies, now make up most of the ivory for sale in the city.
2010-08-12 - Auckland, New Zealand.
A $13 million extension to Auckland Zoo has been given the thumbs up - which could bring the only elephant herd in Australasia to New Zealand. Auckland City Council´s arts, culture and recreation committee has endorsed a proposal to enlarge the zoo´s existing enclosure to six times its size, which would incorporate two areas of Auckland´s Western Springs Park. The proposed areas, which run adjacent to the zoo´s current elephant enclosure, will include an exercise area, a ...
2010-08-10 - Krabi, Thailand.
Krabi has been chosen for the first elephant hospital in the country´s South to treat animals which have been injured while working in plantations and in the tourism industry. More than 800 elephants work in rubber plantations and at tourist sites in the southern provinces, but there are limited veterinary services in the area to treat the animals, National Elephant Institute director Worrawit Rothjanaphaithoon said.
2010-08-08 - Fort Collins, United States. Pam Mellskog
If elephants carried their canteloupe-size testicles in the usual spot, sterilizing them would be easier. Instead, these reproductive parts — along with the tubes that carry the sperm away — grow internally by the kidneys. No one cared much about elephant birth control during those years when poachers ravaged herds to sell ivory for as much as $125 a pound. But since the 1989 international ban on the ivory trade, African elephants have replenished their ranks and then some.
2010-07-10 - Springfield, United States.
The oldest resident of Dickerson Park Zoo, an elephant called Ol´ C.C., has developed a weakness in her back legs for a reason not yet known. Since January, the 60-year-old pachyderm has been receiving medication for a mycobacterial infection, treatment that was expected to last about nine months, possibly less if she responded quickly.
2010-06-28 - River Cess, Liberia. Abednego N. Davis
At least three logging companies in Rivercess County have been given a two-week ultimatum to construct good road networks and provide jobs for the youths in Morweh District or else elephants will destroy their efforts. A local government official from the southeast was in Monrovia last week, pleading with some logging companies not to sit down supinely and allow traditional chiefs to send elephants to destroy their efforts if they fail to heed the advice to provide social services. At least thre...
2010-05-30 - Karachi, Pakistan.
City District Government Karachi (CDGK)’s Community Development Department has been striving to create a suitable atmosphere for families looking for recreational comforts at various family parks, Safari Park and the historical Karachi Zoological Gardens, said Safari Park District Officer Raza Abbas Rizvi while talking to Daily Times.
2010-04-23 - Calgary, Canada.
Its a burning question for Calgary Zoo veterinary staff , who suspect that Maharani, a 20-year-old Asian elephant, is pregnant again. If blood tests confirm the pachyderm is indeed expecting a third calf, theres a heartbreaking possibility the newborn will fall ill to the same disease that killed Maharanis last offspring, Malti, in 2008.
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