http://www.elephant-news.com The latest news about elephants en http://www.elephant.se/logos/logo.gif http://www.elephant-news.com 144 84 culling http://www.elephant-news.com//index.php?id=5226 http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=5226 Pretoria - 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, the departments deputy director-general for biodiversity and conservation, told parliaments portfolio committee on environmental affairs last week that the growing elephant population was a threat to national parks. people http://www.elephant-news.com//index.php?id=5224 http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=5224 Washington - 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 dollar renovation and got into a dispute, according to Lindsay Renick Mayer, a public affairs specialist for the zoo. He was then escorted off the property by zoo park police. smuggle http://www.elephant-news.com//index.php?id=5223 http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=5223 Bangkok - "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 after opening two large pallets at a cargo building of the airport on the night of Feb24. He found 239 pieces of elephant tusk weighing two tonnes. The contraband was valued at 120 million baht. death http://www.elephant-news.com//index.php?id=5222 http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=5222 Sydney - 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 ultrasound scans made it clear the calf had rotated inside its mothers womb and was lying upside down. facility http://www.elephant-news.com//index.php?id=5225 http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=5225 Dallas - 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 controversy in 2008 when they said they planned to move their lone remaining elephant, Jenny, to Mexico. Activists wanted the facility shuttered and the elephant placed at a U.S. animal preserve transfer http://www.elephant-news.com//index.php?id=5227 http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=5227 Dallas - 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 5,400 pounds – have joined the zoos two existing pachyderms, Gypsy and Jenny. poaching http://www.elephant-news.com//index.php?id=5221 http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=5221 Bhubaneswar - 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 reported the incident to forest officials, who tried to locate the elephant. But the animal succumbed to its injuries and its dead body was recovered deep in the forest about 200 km from here. “We tried to trace the elephant all through the day. But we could not find it. Before we could treat it, it succ... smuggle http://www.elephant-news.com//index.php?id=5218 http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=5218 Belgaum - 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 Sangolli, Peeraji Raut, Saleem Pathan, Sadanand Masekar (all from Belgaum), Wilson Soza, Govind Sutar, Mahadev Ghatage and Yashwant Tanbolke (all from Khanapur). death http://www.elephant-news.com//index.php?id=5217 http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=5217 Anuradhapura - 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 post mortem examination the day before yesterday said the elephant had died on the spot, following gun shots.