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• Elephants evicted ahead of India's Commonwealth Games

  - 2007-05-10

  NEW DELHI AFP — Dozens of elephants in India's capital need a new home after being evicted from a riverside locale to make way for construction linked to the 2010 Commonwealth Games, officials said Thursday. The New Delhi government is racing against time to spruce up the sprawling city...

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• Namibia’s breathtaking Etosha National Park turns 100

  - 2007-03-18

  ETOSHA NATIONAL PARK, Namibia AFP — The Etosha National Park, once the world's largest game reserve and home to 114 different mammal species, celebrates its centenary this month as the jewel in Namibia's crown. Hundreds of thousands of tourists flock each year to Etosha in the northern of the...

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• Poachers kill 17 elephants in Zimbabwe

  - 2006-12-31

  HARARE AFP — Supsected Zambian poachers have killed 17 elephants and a rhino in neighbouring Zimbabwe and wounded a game ranger based near the famed Victoria Falls bordering the two countries. The ranger from National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority was now recovering at a private hospital in the country's...

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• 'Elephants' hope to have rivals packing their trunks

  - 2006-05-06

  ABIDJAN AFP — Of all of Africa's four debutantes at the World Cup, Ivory Coast could be the side best placed to spring a shock. The Ivorians pulled off a dramatic upset in qualifying by eliminating four-time finalists Cameroon and as a result will arrive in Germany knowing that...

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• Kenya's massive elephant transfer underway as first group is shifted

  - 2005-08-26

  SHIMBA HILLS NATIONAL RESERVE, Kenya AFP — A first family of five elephants was relocated from this overcrowded reserve at Kenya's coastal region, a day after a similar exercise was called off midway because of bad weather, officials said. The five are among 400 jumbos earmarked for relocation from...

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• Kenyan game wardens work overtime as bushmeat demand emboldens poachers

  - 2005-06-03

  TSAVO EAST NATIONAL PARK, Kenya AFP — As the sun sets over the acacias and tall grass in Africa's second-largest wildlife reserve, game wardens brace for the nightly onslaught of wily two-legged invaders: poachers. Driven by a drought-sparked surge in demand for illegal bushmeat and hampered by stepped-up efforts...

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• Tanzania reports surge in elephant, lion populations

  - 2005-04-01

  DAR ES SALAAM AFP — Tanzania said it had recorded a surge in the population of wildlife living in its national parks and game reserves, notably among elephants and lions, attributable to anti-poaching measures. Over the past 12 years, Tanzania's the number of elephants in Tanzania has shot up...

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• South Africa's famed Kruger mulls elephant culling

  - 2005-03-22

  JOHANNESBURG AFP — South African wildlife authorities are considering controversial cullings to bring down Kruger National Park's booming elephant population, an official said. A moratorium on culling the large mammals has been in place since 1995 and some 12,000 of the pachyderms are now living in Kruger, South Africa's...

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• Famed Indian sanctuary marks centenary with colourful elephant march

  - 2005-02-12

  GUWAHATI, India AFP — Thousands of tourists flocked to a famed national park in India's northeastern state of Assam to watch a colourful elephant procession as part of the sanctuary's weeklong centenary celebrations. Thirty elephants, with visitors sitting atop, marched along a two mile (1.25 mile) route inside Kaziranga...

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• Botswana anthrax outbreak worsens, spreads to Namibia

  - 2004-09-23

  MAUN, Botswana AFP — An anthrax outbreak which has killed close to 200 buffaloes, elephants and a hippo in Botswana has spread to Namibia where it is posing a serious threat to livestock, officials said. Game rangers have found the carcasses of 180 buffaloes, 10 elephants and a hippo...

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