Agence France-Presse

Recent Events

News & Analysis

agence france-presse and elephant and manufacturing - All News and Analysis

• Indonesians threaten to poison elephants

  - 2008-08-05

  JAKARTA AFP — Indonesian villagers threatened Tuesday to poison rare wild elephants that are destroying their palmoil plantations in search of food. "The residents are so angry and have said they will put poison around the plantation areas to kill the elephants unless officials take quick action," said Jambo...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, elephant, Manufacturing

• Wild elephants crush four Indians to death

  - 2006-12-08

  GUWAHATI, India AFP — Four people have been trampled to death by wild elephants in India's northeastern state of Assam in the latest in a series of attacks on humans. A dozen elephants rushed a group of woodcutters Thursday in a dense jungle area in eastern Assam, about 145 kilometres...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, elephant, India, Manufacturing, SECURITY

• Kenyan wildlife rangers slay killer rogue jumbo

  - 2006-06-06

  NAIROBI AFP — After a two-week hunt, Kenyan wildlife rangers have tracked down and shot dead a rogue elephant believed to have killed two people and terrorized villagers in the central Rift Valley. A Kenya Wildlife Service KWS team backed by aerial surveillance caught up with the young adult...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, elephant, Manufacturing

• Tito's hungry elephants spared

  - 2006-03-28

  ZAGREB AFP — A pair of elephants that were once part of the private zoo of Yugoslav's former dictator Tito have been saved by a food donation from Croatia's top tennis player. "Ivan Ljubicic and his wife Aida have put a certain amount of money on the account of...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, dictator, elephant, Manufacturing

• Swiss zoo animals get gourmet feed

  - 2006-01-30

  GENEVA AFP — Pampered zoo animals in the Swiss city of Zurich gobbled up 500 tonnes of fresh food prepared by a dedicated gourmet chef last year, including 21 tonnes (46,000 pounds) of meat, 714 garlic bulbs and 11,135 kiwi fruit. More traditional dishes were also on offer for...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, elephant, food, Manufacturing, Zurich

• Drought forces suspension of massive Kenyan elephant relocation

  - 2006-01-17

  NAIROBI AFP — Drought has forced Kenyan wildlife authorities to indefinitely put off the resumption of a massive elephant transfer billed as "the single largest translocation of animals ever undertaken since Noah's Ark," officials said. The Kenya Wildlife Service KWS had planned this month to resume the relocation of...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, elephant, Manufacturing, relocation

• Drought threatens Kenya's famed wildlife

  - 2006-01-11

  NAIROBI AFP — A searing drought that has put millions of people across east Africa at risk of famine is threatening Kenya's famed wildlife herds as they stray from protected areas to forage for scarce food and water. The Kenya Wildlife Service KWS said conditions in several of the...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Drought, elephant, Manufacturing

• Kenya launches new project to conserve famed Tsavo wildlife parks

  - 2005-09-22

  NAIROBI AFP — As part of a scheme to revamp its national parks to promote tourism and protect wildlife, Kenya has launched a new project to conserve the famed Tsavo East and West National Parks, home to the country's largest populations of elephants. The Kenya Wildlife Service KWS and...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, elephant, Manufacturing, MARKETING

• Elephants on the run trash property, restaurant in Seoul

  - 2005-04-20

  SEOUL AFP — Six elephants which escaped from a children's circus trampled property and trashed a restaurant as panicked residents looked on. One woman needed treatment for a head wound after she was bowled over by an elephant's trunk, witnesses said Wednesday. The jumbos suddenly fled in the...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, elephant, Manufacturing, Seoul, trunk