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- South Africa to resume elephant culling after 13 years
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-02-25
- Mozambique army puts elephants in sights
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-09-17
- Chad fights back to protect elephants from poachers
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-06-04
- Wildlife agency fights for ivory trade moratorium
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-05-23
- Elephants evicted ahead of India's Commonwealth Games
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-05-10
- A New Man in the Middle
- A month before the French go to the polls, François Bayrou's greatest asset seems to be who he's not. As voters have wearied of the in-your-face UMP party candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and the Socialists' Ségolène Royal, the self-styled centrist Bayrou has bounded up the charts. His poll numbers have quadrupled...
- Research articles 2007-03-26
- Bangladesh circus offers jumbo solution to demolition problem
- 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....
- Research articles 2007-03-13
- Elephants wed at Indian beach resort to amuse tourists
- 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...
- Research articles 2006-12-11
- Thai elephants arrive in Australia despite welfare concerns
- 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...
- Research articles 2006-11-02
- UN trade body rules out African ivory sale
- 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...
- Research articles 2006-10-05
- Giant elephant makes a big noise near Downing Street
- 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...
- Research articles 2006-05-05
- Jumbo dies in Kenya's massive elephant relocation
- NAIROBI AFP — An elephant has died while it was being relocated from an overcrowded reserve in Kenya's coastal region to a more spacious park, Kenya Wildlife Services KWS said. The elephant, one of 400 jumbos due to be transferred from Shimba Hills National Reserve to a new home...
- Research articles 2005-09-04
- Hunting for 'elephants' in Africa's oil sector
- MAPUTO AFP — Africa is being eyed anew for potential "elephants" in the oil and gas sector, riding on the back of soaring oil prices, the depletion of resources elsewhere and newfound stability in many countries, experts say. Governments on the continent are opening up and even those which...
- Research articles 2005-06-05
- Sudan's army slaughters elephants for Asian markets
- NAIROBI AFP — Sudan's army and proxy militias are slaughtering large numbers of elephants in southern Sudan and parts of unstable central Africa to fill a growing Asian market, mainly in China, for ivory. A report compiled for the British-based wildlife charity Care for the Wild International, said Sudan...
- Research articles 2005-03-14
- Letters
- Mays' follies So Doug Mays thinks we won't need to raise taxes because the economy will improve so much in 2005 that the school funding crisis will just fade away. He made that statement after the Kansas Supreme Court ruling and before the opening...
- Research articles 2005-01-13
- Can you tell them where to go? (Editorials).(Capitol Hill hubbub over funding of 'HIV -positive Muppet' character, developed for television)(Brief Article)
- Today's editorial brought to you by the letter T for tolerance. Since there are no plans for an HIV-positive Muppet in the U.S., how about introducing a red-faced elephant with a blue trunk who sticks it where it doesn't belong? We'd call...
- Research articles 2002-07-22
- Thailand Tourism Authority Seeks 1.26 Billion Baht for Three Major Projects.
- By Chatrudee Theparat, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 27--The Tourism Authority of Thailand will request a budget of 1.26 billion baht from the government to develop three tourism projects that it has in the planning stages. The three...
- Research articles 2002-05-27
- House votes millions for Asian elephants
- On January 23, the day members returned from recess, the House overwhelmingly passed, 349 to 23, a motion to suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment reauthorizing through 2007 the Asian Elephant Conservation Reauthorization Act (HR 700), thus, in effect, passing the bill. The measure also reauthorizes the...
- Research articles 2002-02-04
- Trading Tensions.(relationship on international trade between the United States and the European Union)(Brief Article)
- What to do when elephants Fight? When elephants fight, the ground shakes and lesser animals take cover. Assume the United States and the European Union are roughly equal elephants in the world of trade, and it clearly matters that their...
- Research articles 2001-04-01
- UPDATES.(possible adverse side effects of wearing perfume)(this and other items are discussed)(Brief Article)
- A TIMELESS SCENT It seems a popular Calvin Klein perfume may truly have timeless effects. "Eternity eau de Parfum" was recently identified by two independent laboratories, in a study commissioned by the Environmental Health Network EHN, to contain 41 ingredients, some which are...
- Research articles 2000-07-01
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