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• Sri Lanka returns orphaned baby elephants to the wild

  - 2008-06-14

  UDAWALAWE, Sri Lanka AFP — Sri Lanka on Saturday released eight orphaned baby elephants into the jungle after rescuing them from near certain death, wildlife officials said. The eight baby jumbos were freed from the Elephant Transit Home where they had been cared for inside the sprawling Udawalawe wildlife...

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• Paper giant illegally clearing Indonesian forests: environmentalists

  - 2008-01-08

  JAKARTA AFP — Rare elephants, tigers and orangutans are under threat from illegal land clearing on Indonesia's Sumatra island by one of Asia's biggest pulp and paper companies, environmentalists said Tuesday. Regional giant Asia Pulp and Paper APP and affiliates are clearing land and building an access road outside...

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• SierraLeone report upsurge in elephant poaching

  - 2007-10-18

  FREETOWN AFP — Authorities in Sierra Leone on Thursday expressed concern at the upsurge in elephant poaching after at least 10 jumbos were killed in the past two months in the west African country for meat and illicit ivory trade. Senior wildlife official Kailie Bangura said the animals were...

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• 21 elephants dead this year in Indonesia's Sumatra: WWF

  - 2006-11-03

  JAKARTA AFP — Twenty-one wild elephants on Indonesia's Riau islands have died in the first 10 months of this year, raising further concerns of rapid declines of the animal, the World Wildlife Fund WWF conservation group has warned. Of the total, 15 died of poisoning and gunshot wounds resulting from...

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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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• Kenya gives elephants more room

  - 2006-09-29

  NAIROBI AFP — Kenyan wildlife authorities resumed the relocation of hundreds of elephants from an overcrowded reserve in Kenya's coastal region to a more spacious park further inland, officials said. The second phase of the relocation from the Shimba Hills National Reserve to Tsavo East National Park, about 300 kilometers...

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• Moscow Circus uses vodka to keep elephants warm in Mongolia

  - 2006-01-15

  ULAN BATOR AFP — The Moscow Circus has resorted to vodka -- plenty of it -- to keep two Indian elephants warm while they perform in chilly Mongolia, local media and organizers said. As the circus prepared for a week-long program in Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator, they faced an...

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• 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...

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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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• Animal welfare group warns against elephant transfer to Australia

  - 2005-05-30

  SYDNEY AFP — An animal welfare group warned against the transfer of endangered Asian elephants to zoos in Australia and New Zealand after one developed behavioural problems while awaiting shipment in Thailand. A female elephant, one of nine elephants being held at a pre-quarantine station in Thailand, had become...

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