2012-02-17 - Hongsa, Laos.
The Elephant Festival has been organised to raise awareness of the need for action to protect the Asian elephant as part of the vital cultural and natural heritage of Laos and the countries of the reg...
2012-01-25 - Perth, Australia.
Tricia is 55 years old, her favourite fruits include watermelons and bananas, and she enjoys long walks around Perth Zoo. Tricia is an Asian elephant and has celebrated her milestone birthday with a 1...
2012-01-25 - Jakarta, Indonesia.
The Sumatran elephant could be extinct in the wild in under 30 years unless immediate steps are taken to protect its rapidly diminishing habitat, environmental group WWF said on Tuesday. IUCN, the Int...
2012-01-25 - Harare, Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe has missed out on accessing money for elephant conservation programmes, due to its non-participation in the recent CITES committee meeting in South Africa. Six African states were allocated m...
2012-01-25 - Kansas City , United States. MATT CAMPBELL
Penney the elephant was a favorite at the Kansas City Zoo for 40 years after coming here as a ´mail order bride,´ and she helped inspire a popular book and movie. But on Tuesday the four-t...
2012-01-25 - Amsterdam, Netherlands.
An elephant at Amsterdams Artis zoo has become the first elephant in Europe to be fitted with a contact lens. Her eye was injured during a scuffle with another elephant, the zoo says. Asian elephant W...
2012-01-25 - Munich, Germany.
A herd of grieving elephants gathers round the lifeless body of a little calf after she died of a heart defect. Three-month-old Lola was due to receive groundbreaking surgery for her condition but pas...
2012-01-23 - Bangalore, India.
After a daylong workshop on Saturday organised by the Forest Department, Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara said, that the experts have suggested that the area which holds small population of elephants ...
2012-01-23 - Sabah, Malaysia. Kristy Inus
An abandoned male baby elephant, believed to be a few weeks old, was rescued by the Sabah Wildlife Department´s Wildlife Rescue Unit at a plantation, about 40km from here, on Saturday. Calling i...
2012-01-22 - COIMBATORE, India.
Nearly 1,000 people gathered to witness Yanai (elephant) Pongal celebrations at Topslip, nearly 85 km from the city, on Saturday. Fourteen elephants were brought from the permanent camp. "Only 14 of t...
