NEVER HEARD AFTER SHE LEFT HERD
May 14th, 2013
I have been following the plight of Mali for months and today I am glad that it has reached the eye of Sri Lankans. Mali is a Sri Lankan elephant who was gifted to Manila zoo in Philippines in 1977. Today, in the zoo, Mali is undergoing a stressful life affected physiologically as well as Read more…
Summer weather could delay Toronto Zoo elephant transfer
May 13th, 2013
Torstar News ServiceIringa, in front, and Toka are two of the three Toronto Zoo elephants that would be moved to a California animal sanctuary. Long-delayed plans to ship the Toronto Zoo’s three aging elephants to a Northern California sanctuary may be further postponed by hot summer weather. Final plans to airlift the elephants aboard a Read more…
Video: Sri Lankan officials capture and release wild elephant
May 13th, 2013
A wild elephant had wandered into a human populated area. Officials from the Department of Wildlife Conservation captured the animal and will relocate it. Watch video>
Keeper Unit to monitor tourism activities along Kinabatangan river
May 12th, 2013
KINABATANGAN: Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD), HUTAN and Danau Girang Field Centre (DGFC) have established a River Keeper Unit. This unit will be assisting the department in protecting elephants and other wildlife within the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary (LKWS). The River Keeper Unit is funded by Elephant Family and the Kinabatangan-Corridor of Life Tourism Operators Association Read more…
Two Phuket baby elephants ‘arrested’
May 12th, 2013
PHUKET: In an echo of a probe last year into “illegal” elephants in Phuket, officials are investigating the backgrounds of two baby elephants in Phuket that are suspected to have been taken from the wild or smuggled in from a neighbouring country. The two are described in paperwork that is suspected to have been issued Read more…
Columbia to end use of animals in traveling circuses
May 9th, 2013
BOGOTA: The Colombian Senate’s Fifth Committee has approved a draft bill to end the use of animals in traveling circuses. The 8 to 1 committee vote (4 absent) sends the Bill to the plenary session and was welcomed by Animal Defenders International (ADI), following a six-year campaign after their undercover investigators exposed cruelty and suffering Read more…
Elephant slaughter: The gangs get bold
May 5th, 2013
The chief of the country’s largest national park says he needs help to combat the well planned poaching campaign that has claimed at least seven of Thailand’s national animals in recent years. In early March, Kaeng Krachan National Park chief Chaiwat Limlikhit-aksorn was outraged to learn of another elephant killing in the area he oversees. Read more…
White elephant caught on camera in Phetchaburi
May 4th, 2013
A suspected white elephant, right, is photographed by an infrared camera at an artificial salt-lick in a Phetchaburi forest earlier this week. Apparent images of a much-sought-after white elephant spotted earlier near Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi have been recorded by cameras set up in the jungle, leaving officials with a decision to make Read more…
40 elephants suspected illegal as raids strike tourism trekking companies
May 4th, 2013
PHUKET: Officers from the regional Natural Resources and Environment Crime Suppression Division raided seven tour companies in Phang Nga this week following reports that the companies were in possession of illegal elephants. Col Watcharin Phusit, who headed the elephant raids in Phuket last year, also led the raids north of Phuket. “We investigated the ATV Read more…
National Zoo to get new Asian elephant
May 3rd, 2013
The National Zoo announced Friday that it is acquiring an Asian elephant from the zoo in Baton Rouge. The elephant is a 37-year-old female named Bozie. Zoo officials said that her companion, Judy, died recently. Elephants are herd animals and cannot be left alone. (CC Lockwood/National Zoo) – The National Zoo is acquiring 37-year-old Bozie Read more…
