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• South Africa to resume elephant culling after 13 years

  - 2008-02-25

  JOHANNESBURG AFP — South Africa is to resume elephant culling for the first time in 13 years, lifting a moratorium on the practice to bring ballooning populations under control, the government said on Monday. After months of emotive public debate over government plans to reduce elephant numbers, Environment Minister...

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• Mozambique army puts elephants in sights

  - 2007-09-17

  MAPUTO AFP — The Mozambican government on Monday authorised soldiers to gun down wild animals who are seen as a threat to human beings after a new report highlighted an increase in the number of deadly attacks. "The number of people killed by wild animals keeps increasing," said the...

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• Chad fights back to protect elephants from poachers

  - 2007-06-04

  THE HAGUE AFP — Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno has detached 400 regular army soldiers to defend the remnants of a once-thriving elephant population decimated by poachers, the country's top conservation official said. "The soldiers are taking positions in and around Zakouma National Park as we speak," Abakar Mahamat...

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• Wildlife agency fights for ivory trade moratorium

  - 2007-05-23

  JOHANNESBURG AFP — An international animal welfare body Wednesday intensified its campaign for a 20-year moratorium on trade in ivory ahead of a crucial meeting on the issue next month. The Convention on the International Trade in Endagered Species CITES in The Hague in June is to vote on...

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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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• Bangladesh circus offers jumbo solution to demolition problem

  - 2007-03-13

  DHAKA AFP — A circus elephant came to the aid of city chiefs in southern Bangladesh after they were ordered to demolish illegal buildings without heavy equipment. Discovering that there were no bulldozers available, officials decided to employ a pachyderm from a travelling circus to help do the work....

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• Elephants wed at Indian beach resort to amuse tourists

  - 2006-12-11

  THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India AFP — Two captive elephants were dressed up as bride and groom for a mock-wedding ceremony to amuse guests at a beach resort in southern India, hotel staff said. The "wedding" took place Sunday evening -- billed as an auspicious night for Hindu marriages -- at a resort...

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• Thai elephants arrive in Australia despite welfare concerns

  - 2006-11-02

  SYDNEY AFP — Four female Asian elephants touched down at Sydney airport, completing a controversial journey from Thailand marked by angry opposition from animal welfare activists. The elephants arrived safely from the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean, the Austalian territory where they were held in quarantine since August, a...

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• UN trade body rules out African ivory sale

  - 2006-10-05

  GENEVA AFP — The United Nations body on trade in protected species rejected a request by three southern African countries to be allowed to sell stockpiles of ivory, in an exception to a 17-year-old global ban on the trade. "The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna...

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• Giant elephant makes a big noise near Downing Street

  - 2006-05-05

  LONDON AFP — A giant mechanical elephant and an oversized mannequin threatened to disrupt coverage of Britain's government reshuffle, momentarily diverting attention from the post-election shake-up. The 12-metre-tall (39-feet) tall pachyderm came face-to-face with a 5.5-metre-tall "little girl" in London's Whitehall, a stone's throw from Blair's Downing Street office...

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