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Pamodi Waravita The Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC) would be conducting an investigation at the Horowpothana Elephant Holding Ground (HEHG) in July this year on the circumstances claimed in the National Aud... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! Read about Horowpothana Elephant Holding Ground (HEHG) in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) film Video of an Elephant Massaging a Woman with its Trunk Goes Viral 2021-01-18 - New Delhi, India. In the video, one can clearly see the woman lying comfortably on a low bed as the elephant is standing near her and massaging her back. The video was shared by a Twitter user named Aamir on Saturday (... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! facility During the pandemic, elephants take a break in Myanmar 2021-01-18 - Taikyi , Myanmar. ZON PANN PWINT As beaches, hotels, pagodas and even walking tours were starved of tourists for most of last year, the pandemic has also taken its toll on the nation’s many elephant camps – which were once a popu... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! Read about Mary in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) Read about Wingabaw Elephant Camp in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) conflict WALSAPUGALA PROTEST DEMANDS ELEPHANT RESERVE GAZETTE 2021-01-18 - Colombo, Sri Lanka. On Monday (18) locals from Walsapugala, Hambantota decided to take to the streets demanding the Proposed Wild Elephant Management Reserve in Hambantota, be included in the government gazette. The Wals... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! conflict Man-Animal Conflict: IFS Officers will go for Online Training, says Assam Forest Minister 2021-01-18 - Guwahati, India. Sentinel Digital Desk Amid repeated incidents of man-animal conflict being reported from different parts of Assam, a five-day training session have kick-started started in Guwahati on Monday for about 35 forest officials, ... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! film Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) 2021-01-17 - Jupiter, United Kingdom. The maverick haulier must overcome a crisis of confidence when he and his friends are hired to transport a pregnant elephant to Texas, a mammoth task that proves far from easy. The Asian elephant in S... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! Read about Cora in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) Read about Elephant Encounters (Bill Morris) in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window)Extern relevant Links (external link which opens in new window):ZOO AND YOU: Topeka Zoo is home to famous Asian elephantYouTube: Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) - That's An Elephant! Scene (1/10) | Movieclips film Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) 2021-01-17 - Jupiter, United Kingdom. The maverick haulier must overcome a crisis of confidence when he and his friends are hired to transport a pregnant elephant to Texas, a mammoth task that proves far from easy. The Asian elephant in S... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! Read about Cora in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) Read about Elephant Encounters (Bill Morris) in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window)Extern relevant Links (external link which opens in new window):ZOO AND YOU: Topeka Zoo is home to famous Asian elephantYouTube: Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) - That's An Elephant! Scene (1/10) | Movieclips conflict Angry elephant hurls mahout to death in TVM 2021-01-17 - Aruvippuram, India. An aggressive elephant threw its mahout away in a fit of rage resulting in his death. The second mahout identified as Kollam native Vishnu (21) died in the attack by the elephant. The incident took pl... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! Read about Gowri Nandanan in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) Read about S. K. Jayachandran in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) birth Three new baby Asian elephants born in SW China"s Yunnan 2021-01-16 - Yunnan, China. At the Xishuangbanna Tropical Zoo, an Asian elephant named Ya Long also gave birth to a baby weighing 95.4 kilograms on January 14, after 21 months and 19 days of pregnancy. "It took the baby elephant... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! Read about Unknown in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) Read about Xishuangbanna Tropical Zoo in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) zoo Natural Bridge Zoo fined for animal welfare violations 2021-01-15 - Natural Bridge, United States. The fifth violation involved Asha, the zoo’s prized elephant, and regulations that require dangerous animals such as lions, tigers, bears and elephants to be under the control of an experienced hand... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! Read about Asha in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) Read about The Natural Bridge Zoo in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) circus Gerry Cottle dead: Circus legend who ran away at 15 is killed by coronavirus 2021-01-14 - Bath, United Kingdom. Vikki White Gerry Cottle, who died in hospital in Bath this week aged 75 after contracting coronavirus, became one of Britain’s best known kings of the Big Top. From virtually nothing he went on to run a string... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! Read about Gerry Cottles Circus in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) people Rangers Accused of Demanding Cash to Return Marauding Elephants to Murchison Park 2021-01-10 - Masindi, Uganda. Michael Ojok According to Jalon Lakony Opiyo, every time elephants invade the area, each member of the village which has around 2000 households contributes 1000 shillings for the rangers to rescue them and their p... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! Read about Murchison Falls National Park in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window)Extern relevant Links (external link which opens in new window):Murchison Falls National Park on Wikipedia welfare Citing health of animals, Centre says stop elephant rides at Jaipur Amer Fort 2021-01-06 - Jaipur, India. Deep Mukherjee Ride operators however, say that they ensure care for the elephants and that closing down the rides would be unfair to mahouts. “How is it fair for this report to say that the elephant rides should ... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! Read about Amber Fort elephant village in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) conservation For Sumatran elephant conservation, involvement of local people is key 2021-01-05 - , Indonesia. Roderick T.J. Buiskool For critically endangered Sumatran elephants, a long-term conservation strategy must include community involvement in mitigating human-elephant conflict, in addition to securing viable habitats. In or... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! organisation India Forest Dept. uses elephants for tracing leopards in Koppal 2021-01-04 - Koppala, India. Two days after a person who was away for cattle grazing at Virupapura Gaddi Islet in Gangavathi taluk was killed by a leopard, the Forest Department officers have introduced two elephants — a male a... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! Read about Sakrebyle elephant camp in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) misc Giants roam near Yangon 2021-01-04 - Yangon, Myanmar. Khaing Khin Sein lives at the Myaing Hay Wun Elephant Camp, which is located between Taik Kyi and Okekan township in the Yangon Region. More than 30 elephants reside at the Myaing Hay Wun Elephant Cam... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! Read about Khaing Khin Sein in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) Read about Myaing Hay Wun Elephant Camp in the Elephant Database (external link which opens in new window) research Wow! Elephants can now be tracked and counted from space 2021-01-03 - , United States. The department of Zoology, the Machine Learning Research Group in collaboration with Dr. Olga Isupova, from the University of Bath and Dr. Tiejun Wang, professor at the University of Twente, in the Ne... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! conflict DRONE TECHNOLOGY TO CHASE ELEPHANTS 2021-01-02 - Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Department of Wildlife Conservation has taken steps to use drone technology to chase away elephants; the pilot project of this initiative is currently underway in the Naula Rathgammana area in Mat... Read more But Share with Tweet first, please! smuggle Smugglers jailed as China"s "biggest ever" illegal ivory network smashed 2021-01-02 - Beiiing, China. Seventeen people have been jailed -- including two for life -- for running China's largest ever ivory smuggling ring, moving millions of dollars of tusks from west Africa into the mainland's vast dome... 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2021-01-19 - Colombo, Sri Lanka. Pamodi Waravita
The Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC) would be conducting an investigation at the Horowpothana Elephant Holding Ground (HEHG) in July this year on the circumstances claimed in the National Aud...
2021-01-18 - New Delhi, India.
In the video, one can clearly see the woman lying comfortably on a low bed as the elephant is standing near her and massaging her back. The video was shared by a Twitter user named Aamir on Saturday (...
2021-01-18 - Taikyi , Myanmar. ZON PANN PWINT
As beaches, hotels, pagodas and even walking tours were starved of tourists for most of last year, the pandemic has also taken its toll on the nation’s many elephant camps – which were once a popu...
2021-01-18 - Colombo, Sri Lanka.
On Monday (18) locals from Walsapugala, Hambantota decided to take to the streets demanding the Proposed Wild Elephant Management Reserve in Hambantota, be included in the government gazette. The Wals...
2021-01-18 - Guwahati, India. Sentinel Digital Desk
Amid repeated incidents of man-animal conflict being reported from different parts of Assam, a five-day training session have kick-started started in Guwahati on Monday for about 35 forest officials, ...
2021-01-17 - Jupiter, United Kingdom.
The maverick haulier must overcome a crisis of confidence when he and his friends are hired to transport a pregnant elephant to Texas, a mammoth task that proves far from easy. The Asian elephant in S...
2021-01-17 - Aruvippuram, India.
An aggressive elephant threw its mahout away in a fit of rage resulting in his death. The second mahout identified as Kollam native Vishnu (21) died in the attack by the elephant. The incident took pl...
2021-01-16 - Yunnan, China.
At the Xishuangbanna Tropical Zoo, an Asian elephant named Ya Long also gave birth to a baby weighing 95.4 kilograms on January 14, after 21 months and 19 days of pregnancy. "It took the baby elephant...
2021-01-15 - Natural Bridge, United States.
The fifth violation involved Asha, the zoo’s prized elephant, and regulations that require dangerous animals such as lions, tigers, bears and elephants to be under the control of an experienced hand...
2021-01-14 - Bath, United Kingdom. Vikki White
Gerry Cottle, who died in hospital in Bath this week aged 75 after contracting coronavirus, became one of Britain’s best known kings of the Big Top. From virtually nothing he went on to run a string...
2021-01-10 - Masindi, Uganda. Michael Ojok
According to Jalon Lakony Opiyo, every time elephants invade the area, each member of the village which has around 2000 households contributes 1000 shillings for the rangers to rescue them and their p...
2021-01-06 - Jaipur, India. Deep Mukherjee
Ride operators however, say that they ensure care for the elephants and that closing down the rides would be unfair to mahouts. “How is it fair for this report to say that the elephant rides should ...
2021-01-05 - , Indonesia. Roderick T.J. Buiskool
For critically endangered Sumatran elephants, a long-term conservation strategy must include community involvement in mitigating human-elephant conflict, in addition to securing viable habitats. In or...
2021-01-04 - Koppala, India.
Two days after a person who was away for cattle grazing at Virupapura Gaddi Islet in Gangavathi taluk was killed by a leopard, the Forest Department officers have introduced two elephants — a male a...
2021-01-04 - Yangon, Myanmar.
Khaing Khin Sein lives at the Myaing Hay Wun Elephant Camp, which is located between Taik Kyi and Okekan township in the Yangon Region. More than 30 elephants reside at the Myaing Hay Wun Elephant Cam...
2021-01-03 - , United States.
The department of Zoology, the Machine Learning Research Group in collaboration with Dr. Olga Isupova, from the University of Bath and Dr. Tiejun Wang, professor at the University of Twente, in the Ne...
2021-01-02 - Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The Department of Wildlife Conservation has taken steps to use drone technology to chase away elephants; the pilot project of this initiative is currently underway in the Naula Rathgammana area in Mat...
2021-01-02 - Beiiing, China.
Seventeen people have been jailed -- including two for life -- for running China's largest ever ivory smuggling ring, moving millions of dollars of tusks from west Africa into the mainland's vast dome...
2021-01-01 - Berhampur, India.
The elephant calf, rejected by its herd in Sunapur village on the outskirts of Berhampur has been shifted to Kapilash rescue centre in Dhenkanal district. The baby elephant was part of the herd which ...
