Elephant calf falls to death
December 31st, 2011
A 2-year-old calf, which came in a herd of 60 elephants, fell accidentally into irrigation well and died near Hosur on Friday. Forest officials said that the male calf along with 60 other elephants strayed into a field in a village near Hosur. It accidentally fell into the 20-feet well, which had no water. Though Read more…
Efforts to help save elephants end in failure
December 29th, 2011
DONG NAI – Half of the wild elephants in Dong Nai Province have been wiped out in recent years, despite steps taken by the Prime Minister to save them. A project that he initiated five years ago to provide them with sanctuary in three “elephant” provinces by the year 2010 failed to get underway in Read more…
Elephants Increasingly At Risk Of Extinction, Group Says
December 29th, 2011
JOHANNESBURG — It’s been a disastrous year for elephants, perhaps the worst since ivory sales were banned in 1989 to save the world’s largest land animals from extinction, the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC said Thursday. A record number of large seizures of elephant tusks represents at least 2,500 dead animals and shows that organized Read more…
Elephant’s sixth ‘toe’ discovered
December 26th, 2011
A mysterious bony growth found in elephants’ feet is actually a sixth “toe”, scientists report. For more than 300 years, the structure has puzzled researchers, but this study suggests that it helps to support elephants’ colossal weight. Fossils reveal that this “pre-digit” evolved about 40 million years ago, at a point when early elephants became Read more…
She’s having a ball! Anne the elephant…
December 24th, 2011
She’s having a ball! Anne the elephant beaten and stabbed by sadistic keeper, enjoys Christmas sanctuary paid for by big-hearted Daily Mail readers There aren’t many humans of her age who would still be up for a game of football on a grey December day. But 59-year-old Anne the elephant is enjoying a magical new Read more…
San Diego elephant fatally attacked by another elephant, necropsy shows
December 22nd, 2011
Umoya, a 21-year-old female African elephant with two calves, died after ‘aggressive interaction’ with another elephant at San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Umoya, center, a female African elephant, was found dead Nov. 17 at San Diego… (San Diego Zoo Safari Park) Reporting from San Diego — A postmortem examination has confirmed that Umoya, a 21-year-old Read more…
The Elephant in the Room: How Contraception Could Save Future Elephants from Culling
December 22nd, 2011
In South Africa they have a problem, a big one: too many elephants. For most of the 1900s extensive poaching threatened to wipe out the country’s elephants. In response, conservationists established reserves throughout the region and relocated as many herds as they could. Now those herds are doing quite well. So well, in fact, that Read more…
Elephant electrocuted
December 21st, 2011
Erode (TN), Dec 22 (PTI) A female elephant was electrocuted near a village in Sathyamangalam forests, the second such incident in over a week, officials said today. The carcass of the 15-year-old pachyderm was found yesterday near a farmer”s land in Pudupeerkadavu village where banana crops were being cultivated. The farmer had put up an Read more…
Goods train mows downs 7 elephants
December 18th, 2011
JALPAIGURI: A goods train speeding at 70kmph through the Dooars, large tracts of which are a go-slow zone, ploughed into a herd of elephants on a clear, moonlit night, killing seven of them – the highest number of elephant deaths in a single railway accident in the country. What became immediately clear within hours of Read more…
Malaysia seizes hundreds of African elephant tusks
December 13th, 2011
Malaysian authorities say they have seized hundreds of African elephant tusks worth 4 million ringgit ($1.3 million) that were being shipped to Cambodia. Customs official Azis Yacub says inspectors at Port Klang harbor found the tusks hidden in containers of handicrafts from Kenya’s Mombasa port. The shipment was headed for Cambodia’s beach resort area of Read more…
