French’s crusade for baby elephant
May 31st, 2012
Bona, an orphaned two-year-old Sumatran Elephant. HERVEY Bay animal crusader Amanda French has called on the Fraser Coast to help save a baby elephant in a campaign that took her all the way to Sumatra. Ms French is part of a team of three Queenslanders out to save Bona, an orphaned two-year-old Sumatran Elephant who Read more…
GPS satellite helping scientists track endangered Asian elephants
May 29th, 2012
Developers and poachers know no limits when it comes to the Asian elephant. This gargantuan mammal has been losing ground in its fight to survive. Not only is this creature prized for its tusks, but it has lost its natural habitat as new settlements, roads and crops increasingly pop up. Making things even worse is Read more…
Radio collar project to track elephants fails
May 27th, 2012
COIMBATORE: Hardly ten months after a 20-year-old female member of an elephant herd was fitted with a GPS (Gloabal Positioning System) enabled Radio Collar at Boluvampatty forest range near Thondamuthur here to study movement and behaviour of the gentle giants, Forest Department and experts from World Wide Fund (WWF) have initiated a massive search in Read more…
Elephant calf dies of sunstroke
May 24th, 2012
BARIPADA: Dry water bodies and shortage of water in the forest areas of the northern parts of Odisha have left the animals hungry for water. Falling pray to the rising temperature was a one-year-old elephant calf. Sources said the jumbo calf was found dead in the buffer zone of Similipal forest. Forest officials suspected intestinal Read more…
Sri Lanka customs seize 1.5 tons of elephant tusks
May 23rd, 2012
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA Sri Lankan customs officials say they have seized about 1.5 tons of elephant tusks in the largest ever such seizure in the country. Udaya Liyanage, a customs official, says the tusks were being transported through the capital, Colombo, in a container that arrived from Kenya and was bound for Dubai. The container Read more…
Elephant kills villager in Koraput
May 18th, 2012
KORAPUT: A tribal was trampled to death by an elephant in Koraput’s Narenga village. The incident took place when the victim, Chaitanya Muduli (37), was returning from his field on Tuesday evening. He was confronted by a herd of eight elephants. Though he tried to escape, he failed and died on the spot. “Muduli died Read more…
Two Elephants Chained and Kept in Isolation at Pinnawala
May 18th, 2012
Cruelty to two elephants at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphange is a cause of concern for animal rights activits. It has transpired that the elephants have been subjected to severe cruelty by their mahouts during a training program. These two particular animals had been separated form the herd, chained, and kept in isolation. Environmentalists claim that Mihiri who Read more…
Elephant sanctuary to set up in Sri Lanka North Central Province
May 15th, 2012
May 15, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government is to set up a sanctuary in the Anuradhapura District of the North Central Province as part of its elephant conservation programme. Wild Life and Agrarian Services Minister S.M. Chandrasena says the government is to establish the sanctuary at a cost of Rs. 250 million. The sanctuary is Read more…
Child killed as elephants run amok at Kerala temple
May 14th, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: One child was killed and nearly 60 people injured, many of them seriously, when three elephants lined up for the aarattu (the holy bath of the presiding deity), ran amok at Koodalmanikkom temple near Thrissur. The aarattu is a ritual which marks the end of the 10-day annual festival at the temple, The incident comes close Read more…
Slideshow: Sneak peek at Denver Zoo’s new Elephant Passage
May 14th, 2012
DENVER – On Saturday, May 12, thousands of people got a sneak peek into the Denver Zoo’s largest and most ambitious project in its history. Guests got a first look at the $50 million, state-of-the-art exhibit for Asian elephants and 15 other species. The facility the first in the world designed to house up to Read more…
