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- World briefs: Heroin elephant out of rehab
- CHINA: An elephant that became addicted to heroin at the hands of illegal traders will return home tomorrow after a three-year rehab programme. Xiguang, a four-year-old male Asian elephant, became addicted after he was captured by smugglers along the China-Burma border in March 2005. The traders fed the elephant bananas...
- Research articles 2008-09-05
- Indonesians threaten to poison elephants
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- Group demands probe into zoo elephant's death
- Petal the elephant died June 9 at the Philadelphia Zoo. At 52, she the was oldest African elephant living in an American zoo. But an animal-rights group believes it might have been more than old age that killed her - a claim dismissed by federal officials. In Defense of Animals,...
- Research articles 2008-06-19
- Sri Lanka returns orphaned baby elephants to the wild
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-06-14
- Nellie the Elephant, final call for boarding
- FRANKFURT AFP — Complete with a chill-out area for exhausted elephant keepers and a resuscitation room for distressed tropical fish, Frankfurt Airport's new Animal Lounge opened its doors on Friday. The new 3,750-square-metre (40,000-square-feet) hangar has 42 stalls for large animals like the huge number of polo ponies and...
- Research articles 2008-04-11
- Brilliant 'Horton' is adorable, lovable, neat
- Horton Hears a Who! *** 1/2 out of four Voices: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Will Arnett, Carol Burnett Directors: Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino Distributor: 20th Century Fox Rating: G...
- Research articles 2008-03-14
- Wild elephants hold up Sri Lanka vote: police
- COLOMBO AFP — Security forces armed with loud hailers were deployed in eastern Sri Lanka Monday to drive away wild elephants blocking access to polling booths, police said. Villagers in Wellaveli told the authorities that they were unable to vote at the first local elections in 14 years because...
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- Bangkok restaurant to give big spenders a taste of poverty
- BANGKOK AFP — A Bangkok restaurant is treating its biggest spenders to a 300,000-dollar meal prepared by Michelin-starred chefs -- but only after they have jetted to an elephant camp to see how the other half live. Lebua hotels, which last year put on a sumptuous dinner with a...
- Research articles 2008-03-05
- 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
- by Andrew Thompson
- SEKONDI, Ghana AFP — Ivory Coast overwhelmed Guinea in the closing stages to triumph 5-0 in an African Nations Cup quarter-final Sunday and equal the record winning margin for the tournament. The 'Elephants' led 1-0 at half-time thanks to a Kader Keita goal and captain Didier Drogba, Salomon Kalou...
- Research articles 2008-02-03
- Ivorian 'Elephants' set to put Benin 'Squirrels' to flight
- SEKONDI, Ghana AFP — Mighty Ivory Coast face minnows Benin Friday in potentially the greatest mismatch of the 2008 African Nations Cup. Morocco overwhelmed Namibia 5-1 three days ago in the most one-sided match so far of the biennial tournament, but the Ivorian 'Elephants' are capable of inflicting even...
- Research articles 2008-01-25
- Paper giant illegally clearing Indonesian forests: environmentalists
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-01-08
- WORLD Tonight: A large one
- CONSERVATIONISTS in India praised socialite Paris Hilton today for speaking out on her latest cause - binge-drinking elephants. Activists said it would raise awareness of the plight of the animals and they encouraged Hilton to visit the remote region that is home to the wild elephants.
- Research articles 2007-11-13
- SierraLeone report upsurge in elephant poaching
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-10-18
- Disputed British art prize winners back on show
- LONDON AFP — Highlights from over 20 years of Britain's often-controversial Turner Prize art show go on display from Tuesday, in a retrospective exhibition which is once again fueling fierce debate. A pickled cow by ex Britart badboy Damien Hirst and Chris Ofili's elephant dung canvas are among the...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- 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
- Dung tests aim to fix Cambodia elephant numbers
- PHNOM PENH AFP — Hundreds of samples of elephant dung collected in Cambodia will be sent to Australia to help determine how many of the animals are left in the wild here, conservationists said Wednesday. Cambodia's agriculture ministry has greenlighted plans to run DNA tests on 520 dung samples...
- Research articles 2007-08-21
- Elephants snacking on trees wake Canadian townsfolk
- OTTAWA AFP — It was no dream. Two elephants seen roaming the streets of a sleepy town in central Canada in the wee hours of the morning had actually escaped from a traveling circus, police said Thursday. The massive pachyderms, named Bunny and Suzy, had escaped from Garden Bros....
- Research articles 2007-07-12
- Seven elephants killed in Kenyan sanctuary
- NAIROBI AFP — Poachers have killed seven elephants near Kenya's Tsavo National Park over the past month, wildlife officials said Tuesday. The Kenya Wildlife Service KWS said the animals died in a migrating corridor near the Kenya-Tanzania border, where seven Tanzanian poachers and their Kenyan guide were arrested over...
- Research articles 2007-07-10
- Group asks feds to look into elephant care
- An animal rights group is asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate Six Flags Discovery Kingdom's allegedly abusive treatment of the Vallejo amusement park's elephants. In Defense of Animals has filed a complaint with the USDA charging that Six Flags has violated the federal Animal Welfare...
- Research articles 2007-07-09
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