2010-03-08 - Pretoria, South Africa.
Animal Rights Africa and the DA have lambasted a top official in the department of environmental affairs for suggesting that culling some of the countrys elephants was "inevitable". Fundisile Mketeni,...
2010-03-08 - Washington, United States.
Police in Washington, D.C. arrested a man who was trespassing on the grounds of The National Zoo Saturday afternoon. The man was outside the elephant enclosure that has been closed for a multi-million...
2010-03-08 - Bangkok, Thailand.
"Was I shocked? No. But I grieved for the grisly fate of those elephants," says Tanat Suvattanametakul. The director of the Clearance Customs Bureau at Suvarnabhumi airport recounted his feelings afte...
2010-03-08 - Sydney, Australia.
The matriarch of the zoos elephant herd, Porntip, showed on March 1 she was ready to give birth to a 100kg calf, after having been artificially inseminated about 22 months before. But by Sunday night ...
2010-03-07 - Dallas, United States.
The Dallas Zoo plans to have six elephants on display just two years after animal rights activists were calling for the shutdown of an aging exhibit with just one pachyderm. Zoo officials stirred cont...
2010-03-06 - Dallas, United States.
Like birds in spring, elephants have been flocking to the Dallas Zoo over the past few weeks. Two female African elephants - Kamba, 30 years old and weighing 4,700 pounds, and Congo, 32, weighing 5,40...
2010-03-03 - Bhubaneswar, India.
A young tusker was killed by poachers in Kulunda forest of Orissas Angul district, a forest official said Wednesday. The wild elephant received bullets below its ears and on its head. Villagers report...
2010-03-02 - Belgaum, India.
Chikkodi police on Sunday arrested eight persons for "allegedly" smuggling ivory and recovered two pieces of 3-foot-long ivories worth Rs 60 lakh from them. The accused have been identified as Arif Sa...
2010-03-02 - Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
A she elephant accompanied by her calf had been shot dead at Nellikulama in Anuradhapura, Wildlife officials said. Veterinary Surgeon of the Wild Life Department, W.A. Dharmakeerthi who conducted the...
2010-03-02 - New Delhi, India.
An elephant hired for a Hindu wedding in India caused over £200,000 in damage after trying to reach an in-heat female. The turned-on mammal crushed 20 limos trying to get to the female in a nearby sug...
